FS#59370 - [telegram-desktop] Does not show badges

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Magnus Groß (Magnus21) - Tuesday, 17 July 2018, 15:59 GMT
Last edited by Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro) - Sunday, 29 July 2018, 17:42 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description: Telegram does not show unread badges, since it is compiled with the define TDESKTOP_DISABLE_UNITY_INTEGRATION.

Unity integration allows Telegram to show a badge containing the amount of unread messages.
Please consider compiling without that flag, since both KDE and Gnome are able to handle unity badges and show them.

It would be cool to be able to see the number of unread messages at a glance again, for the related Github issue see: https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/issues/4554

As you can see, the badge is only used, if started with `env XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=Unity`, so Telegram doesn't even default to the badge, even if it is compiled without the disable flag.

So, I propose to compile Telegram with badge support to enable users to get unread messages badges, which currently don't work due to that flag.
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Closed by  Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro)
Sunday, 29 July 2018, 17:42 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro) - Sunday, 29 July 2018, 15:09 GMT
Ok test now.
Comment by Magnus Groß (Magnus21) - Sunday, 29 July 2018, 17:08 GMT
Thanks, works perfect now. I had to install `libunity` from AUR to make it work and I had to give Telegram the `XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=Unity` env variable as well.
Thanks again!
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Comment by Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro) - Sunday, 29 July 2018, 17:42 GMT
Ah well. That should probably go into the docs somewhere.

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