Desktop: Feature request: show tray icon and unread new message badge on OS X menu bar.

[Johnich]

Should show a tray icon on the bar, and show the number of unread new messages on the tray icon when new messages arrived. That will help a lot when we set the OS X Dock to auto-hide. Hope to see this new feature in the next version.

[sinky]

:+1: same for Windows tray
and a option to hide the taskbar icon (see https://github.com/yuya-oc/electron-mattermost/pull/43)

[jmreynolds]

:+1:

Let me know if you want me to resubmit any of my pull request (#46)

[Johnich]

Yes it's just a request, hope @yuya-oc or you guys or someone else can code it ;)

[yuya-oc]

I think OS X menu bar is too small to show the number. So I'm thinking about the way to indicate it.
In Windows, I could use colored dot, but OS X requires a template image (black only). Do you have any ideas?

[Johnich]

Numbered badge on the menu bar icon is acceptable. As I know there are some other apps have supported this feature by using small size font for the badge, that looks nice, almost a native style.

[yuya-oc]

Are there any example screenshots? I want to know nice size.

[Johnich]

Will do it when I am back to my computer later :)

On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 6:02 AM -0800, "Yuya Ochiai" [email protected] wrote:

Are there any example screenshots? I want to know how size is nice.

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[nItroFreeZer]

Menu bar icon would be very nice! +1
@yuya-oc Here is a screenshot of Telegram on OS X (original size, non-retina, full-hd)

[yuya-oc]

Thank you, @nItroFreeZer . Do you know about two-digit number?

[nItroFreeZer]

@yuya-oc Here is a new screenshot with the number 20.

[acidicX]

:+1: for the same on Linux. I'd be fine with the red/green dot indication that Slack uses :)

[nItroFreeZer]

@yuya-oc This might help: https://github.com/cadecairos/electron-mattermost/commit/c1ea367723f80974de21051cf89bb6262a78ff6f

[yuya-oc]

Practically it has no effect yet. src/main.js should receive message via ipc like win32-overlay in order to change icon.

[nItroFreeZer]

I moved the feature request to mattermost's feature idea forum.

@Johnich @sinky @jmreynolds @acidicX: If this is still a priority for you, please upvote the request in mattermost's feature idea forum and add / move your comments.

[teetrinkers]

I implemented the tray functionality for matterfront (https://github.com/lloeki/matterfront/pull/81) and can port it to mattermost desktop, if that's ok with you.

[yuya-oc]

If it's ok the icon is the same as Windows, I can add it very easily in fact.

Unread:
Mention:

Then, this is my experiment. How do you think?

Normal:
Dark:

[nItroFreeZer]

@yuya-oc Great! :+1:

[teetrinkers]

Nice. Though a dot is enough info for me. Do we really need the actual message count?

[yuya-oc]

At least, I think there should be the way to know whether the message is "mention" or "unread", like Windows tray icon.

[yuya-oc]

So as @teetrinkers said, the count might not be necessary.

[nItroFreeZer]

@yuya-oc In my opinion the count is nice to have, not must have.

I added a second team and found out that the unread marker (on Dock icon) only appears if a new message arrives in the current active team. (OS X)

[lloeki]

Please make sure this is an option, as I like my menubar to be uncluttered and free of distractions.

[yuya-oc]

Now, I will able to add the icon. But it seems that it's hard to support the counting in Retina environment. Dynamically-generated images are not correctly assigned as 2x images for Electron's nativeImage.

[nItroFreeZer]

@yuya-oc Counting is not so important.

[xeno-by]

Hi everyone! What's the current status of this feature? I can't seem to be able to find it in 2.5.2.

[jasonblais]

@xeno-by Which desktop app version are you running? We haven't released v2.5.2

[xeno-by]

v2.5.2: https://www.dropbox.com/s/7zssczcsq2mju98/Screenshot%202017-03-28%2018.20.03.png?dl=0

[jasonblais]

Looks like it might be the Slack desktop app @xeno-by

If you're using the app to run a Mattermost instance, we recommend downloading the Mattermost desktop app to get the best user experience.

[xeno-by]

Oops, I came here via google and figured that you guys are somehow related. Sorry for the trouble!

[jasonblais]

no worries! 👍

[harryi3t]

Is this released? Can't find it.
Using the native app on mac.

[nItroFreeZer]

@harryi3t Yes. Press cmd+, and enable the option.

[besil]

Can't find the option to enable menu bar icon in the Notifications menu on Telegram mac os native app (downloaded via app store, not the Desktop version).
Am I missing something?

I confirm telegram menu bar can be added in the other version (Desktop Telegram), but it seems to me not in the os x native one.
Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place, but didn't found in other settings menus...

[jasonblais]

@besil If you go to the Mac Desktop App, choose "Mattermost" > "Preferences", there is an option to Show Mattermost icon in the menu bar

Let me know if you can't find it.

[nItroFreeZer]

@besil This is neither Telegram Desktop nor Telegram Mobile, this is about Mattermost Desktop.

[besil]

Sorry, my fault.
I came here googling Telegram notification bar, I didn't notice this was about mattermost.

Thanks! Sorry for the misleading question :(