Subject: bug#77496: [PATCH] Add 'ns-app-badge' to set macOS / GNUstep icon badge

From: Po Lu <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2025 21:35:28 +0800

Ship Mints <[email-masked]> writes:

> No reason to be skeptical. The API is dead simple as is the implementation.
>
> https://multixden.blogspot.com/2023/08/gnustep-now-has-badges.html
> https://github.com/gnustep/libs-gui/blob/fcfc643e3cacdb7b455629951481ead986cdd182/Headers/AppKit/NSDockTile.h#L65
> https://github.com/gnustep/libs-gui/blob/fcfc643e3cacdb7b455629951481ead986cdd182/Source/NSDockTile.m#L122

That's good to hear.  None the less, GNUstep is too seldom used for
feature availability there to justify implementing the same features on
Mac OS, particularly when Emacs's GNUstep port is known to be unreliable
and short of other critical editing features such as Indic or Arabic
script shaping support.