elementary
Badge in dock for event today
Problem
there is no way to tell the user "you have x events today". The user has to remember and check by themselves
Proposal
a badge with a count of events today in the dock
Prior Art (Optional)
No response
Oh this is interesting. I think I like this, but maybe only for events that have a time and not all-day events. Otherwise things like holiday calendars would probably make it too noisy
Solid remark. Noisy info just becomes background info.
maybe then the badge only display a count for the events that havent finished ? If i saw the dentist at 10, and ive set the event to be until 12, it would not make sense for calendar to display a "1" and poke for my attention at 16
Would this be something to be done in TodayEventMonitor if approved? It seems to focus on events of the day and listen to changes.
For my proposal, ive noticed this line in HIG about badges:
If the badge is not easily dismissed when the user views your app, it is likely that this is not a good use of a badge.
Would this be an issue/blocking? Could this be avoided by checking whether user want to be reminded of an event when parsing events to get to a count ? This would be akin to a persistent notification after all. Is it redundant with event notifications ?