Feature Request: Show Notification Badges

Having the icons show notification badges (much as they do in the standard system Dock) would be fantastic!

Is this technically feasible? I'd love to see this feature. The only reason I keep the dock visible is for the notification badges

If you can find me an official apple api to get notifications then sure

I don't know the first thing about macos development, so I don't know if it's possible to get a handle on another app's NSApplication object or how. But if it is possible, looks like NSApplication.dockTile.badgeLabel is what we're interested in.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appkit/nsdocktile/1524433-badgelabel

This might be nothing of use, but when I had a Mac with a TouchBar I used to show notifications in the bar by polling apps' dock badges with AppleScript, like so:

tell application "System Events" tell process "Dock" set badgeNumber to value of attribute "AXStatusLabel" of UI element "NetNewsWire" of list 1 end tell end tell

The script returns the value indicated in the Dock’s badge.

oh wow this is great, I hacked this into a simple script together with xbar (https://xbarapp.com/) and this does exactly what I need. Not as pretty as this project tho :)

oh wow this is great, I hacked this into a simple script together with xbar (https://xbarapp.com/) and this does exactly what I need. Not as pretty as this project tho :)

Could you share your script please :)

I'm no developer but you may be able to look at the source code for the app "Doll", which has the red badge count option: https://github.com/xiaogdgenuine/Doll

I'm no developer but you may be able to look at the source code for the app "Doll", which has the red badge count option: https://github.com/xiaogdgenuine/Doll

thx, I'll use Doll app instead!