Show notification Badge / notification dot instead of text

[8bitPit]

Just show a little dot next to the icon instead of the notification's content.

[Methotrex8]

I think the notification dot is a great idea because it will add to the minimalist aesthetic of the launcher. In addition, it's a great way of adding more privacy, especially when it comes to messaging apps. If this can happen, I suggest the following:

• A menu to set the notification type
• Notifications type includes full notifications (like how they display now, 9-04-2019), dots, and dots with the number of notifications inside.
• Can the dot colors be modified, too? I'm thinking of light, dark, wallpaper, and icon-based colors (if possible)

[8bitPit]

Thanks for your ideas @Methotrex8. Because notification dots would already be an alteration of an existing feature, I wouldn't like to add much customization, to keep everything simple. Additionally, I experimented with showing numbers next to notifications, but couldn't get decent results. Some apps count incoming messages others count notifications (you get one notification for every person that writes you a message) and so on. Notification summary texts don't have this problem, they're straightforward to understand.

[Martin5001]

Having option to choose different style for specific app might be really useful. I understand you don´t want to add too much options, but there are many apps that send notifiactions just as a reminder (vocabulary learning apps, games, daily wallpapers etc.) and I want to keep them enabled while I don´t need them to show the text. So I personally would definitely use an option to set these apps separately.

[8bitPit]

@Martin5001 I recommend to disable home screen notifications for those apps. This way, they will only show up in Android's notification shade (more info: #920). Because Android already offers tons of notification settings, I'm not really keen on adding per-app level notification settings.

[Martin5001]

That's true it might get overly complicated.

[jtagg82]

I would also like this feature. I believe a discrete dot in between the icon and the app name would be enough. We could still drag the app icon to the right to see the summary as now

[8bitPit]

To better plan ahead and to give users an estimate which features will be added to Niagara, I’ve decided to close all feature requests that that are unlikely to be implemented in the next year (2021). This is one of those, unfortunately. I'm sorry. Feel free to open this ticket again in 2022 or later.

[xH8TE]

Thank you. However I would like notifications without previews. I would like to maintain my privacy without having the contents of my notification readily able to read on the home screen. Also if my favorites all have unread notifications then that expands the home screen significantly while not maintaining my privacy of said notifications. I would like to option to simply have an indicator of an unread notification. That maintains the simplicity of the launcher and privacy.

[8bitPit]

Thanks for explaining, @xH8TE. As of now, we're not planning to support this use case. I have never tried one, but a privacy screen protector could help from keeping prying eyes off your screen.

[MrThistle]

See also Discord topic https://discord.com/channels/728630549278883950/1206863593069482004

[TFackler]

Another good use case for such a feature would be a minimalist aesthetic since notification previews might take up large amounts of screen space. Completely waiving information about notifications seems like a bad compromise.