Improve notifications

[contentkraft]

I noticed that Slack notifications work okay, but if I get a message in a certain channel and click on it, it doesn’t open the channel, just the Slack window.

Another thing I can’t get to work are notifications in the app icons. I never know how many unread messages there are in Slack, Google Mail, etc.

Is this something that could be added to the app icons?

[kofigumbs]

Yup, this makes sense. Right now the notifications hook is the bare minimum (haven't changed it since the MVP). I'm gonna drop the complete list of notifications improvements here for my future self. Also wanted to say thanks for creating the other two issues—#25 was a pretty easy fix, and it'll definitely be in the next release.

[makeavish]

@contentkraft I am not receiving banner notifications on slack.
How did you enable those?
I am on MacOS Catalina 10.15.6

[toomim]

Does anyone have an intuition for how difficult it would be to make badges work? I tend to use badges rather than popup notifications, because I think they are psychologically healthier. :)

Edit: Ah, looks like the API is as simple as:

NSApp.dockTile.badgeLabel = @"Badge";

[toomim]

I'd be happy to fund the work in adding a badge icon for notifications count.

I want to write a chat app using multi, and it'd be great to see how many unread chat messages there are.

Ideally, the chat would be able to communicate with multi to tell it how many messages are unread. This number might be different than "the number of notifications that have arrived since last focusing the app", because the chat might have multiple channels, and the user might not have clicked on one of the channels to view the messages within it, even though he has focused the app.

[kofigumbs]

Thanks for the link to the badges example. If you're up for experimenting, I think it should be easy enough to get this working in a fork. The notification integration is in Browser+notification.swift.

I really appreciate your offer for funding. I'm not set up to have folks sponsor individual features, but if I ever get to that I'll let you know.

[kofigumbs]

This thread turned into a couple of requests:

• @contentkraft Multi 2.1.3 includes the auto-focus when opening Multi
• @toomim Multi 2.1.3 includes an API for badges (I'll follow up via email)
• The full notifications checklist I wrote above was copied to Improve notifications #69