Zulip-desktop: Tray icon when income new messages

[mynoheart]

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• Operating System:
  
  
  
  • [x] Windows
  
  
  • [ ] Linux/Ubutnu
  
  
  • [ ] macOS
  
  
• Clear steps to reproduce the issue:
  Normal icon and icon when incoming new message not strong different.
  For example in Skype when new message in icon bright number and good see that incoming new message. Attached two screenshots for example.
• Relevant error messages and/or screenshots:
  
  

[akashnimare]

I don't know how to make that icon strong since we're dynamically creating the icon using canvas. When you don't have any unread count, we use the standard Zulip logo (that's why it looks good compared to what you see when you have the unread counts). I'll see if we could improve this.

[mynoheart]

I think that better do bright color message count. For example red, as it do Telegram.

[akashnimare]

The current color scheme looks good to me though we could try other font + color combination and make it better.

[rrhythmsharma]

@akashnimare can i work on this to make it red

[saurabhkanswal]

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[saurabhkanswal]

@akashnimare can i work on this to make it red

@rrhythmsharma are you working on this issue? if yes let me know, i will un-assign myself. sorry i didn't saw your comment.

[rrhythmsharma]

@saurabhkanswal, No I am not working on it, Discuss this with Akash nimare before start working on this here https://chat.zulip.org , I don't think so community currently want this change, try some other issues :)

[akashnimare]

@saurabhkanswal I can help you in finding the right issues to work on. Let me know if you're interested.

[saurabhkanswal]

@akashnimare sure, i love to work with new issue.

[radeknh]

I also see this issue important. What about inverting the colors, to stay with the original colors?

And I think that the information that "there is at least one new message" is much more important than "how many new messages are there".

[timabbott]

I think inverting the colors is pretty confusing.

I agree we should fix this; the current Windows tray approach of replacing our branding with a number is confusing; we could just go with a red dot over it if we don't have space to show a number.

[aryanshridhar]

Looks like a good project ! Taking this issue :)

[aryanshridhar]

Hey , @akashnimare , Should this be done for only Windows or others Operating Systems too .