feat(desktop): show unread completion badges - #11040
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ApprovabilityVerdict: Not approved Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR adds a new automatic Windows taskbar notification, including a web coordinator and Electron IPC/native overlay integration. Although it is scoped, fail-soft, backward-compatible, and tested, it changes user-facing runtime behavior for existing Windows users and warrants human review. You can add or adjust custom eligibility rules. Learn more. |
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change replaces the boolean taskbar indicator with a count-based badge flow. The web app tracks unseen completions, renders cached badge images, and sends them through IPC. Desktop code applies Windows overlays or macOS dock counts. Completion acknowledgement now defers while the page is inactive. ChangesTaskbar unread indicator
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant ChatView
participant useAcknowledgeThreadCompletion
participant DesktopTaskbarUnreadCoordinator
participant desktopBridge
participant setDesktopUnreadBadge
ChatView->>useAcknowledgeThreadCompletion: acknowledge completed thread
DesktopTaskbarUnreadCoordinator->>DesktopTaskbarUnreadCoordinator: count unseen completions
DesktopTaskbarUnreadCoordinator->>desktopBridge: send count and badgeDataUrl
desktopBridge->>setDesktopUnreadBadge: apply platform badge
Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to A Windows taskbar badge can show an outdated unread count when badge rendering fails, and the badge styling lacks the required white ring. These are bounded desktop-indicator issues; core completion tracking remains functional. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@apps/web/src/components/desktop/DesktopTaskbarUnreadCoordinator.tsx`:
- Around line 39-40: Update the badge drawing logic around the canvas context to
use the required green fill instead of red, then add a white ring by setting the
stroke color and drawing the existing badge path with stroke. Preserve the
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Re: the docstring coverage warning, I’m leaving this as-is. The functions counted here are small components, IPC handlers, and test helpers where blanket docstrings would mostly repeat the names and types. The repository does not enforce a docstring threshold, and all required checks pass. I’ll keep comments limited to places where the reasoning is genuinely non-obvious so the PR stays focused. |
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If this gets accepted, I’d like to add the same unread badge to macOS and Linux next. |
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In `@apps/desktop/src/electron/DesktopUnreadBadge.ts`:
- Around line 42-44: Update the badge handling in DesktopUnreadBadge to remove
the darwin/macOS branch, keeping unread badge behavior Windows-only. Remove the
macOS-specific tests associated with that branch while preserving the existing
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Added mac-os support. Linux I'll still wait for PR approval |
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77-104: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winHandle a missing Windows badge image before calling
setTaskbarUnreadIndicator. WhencreateTaskbarBadgeDataUrlreturnsnull, the coordinator sends a positive count with no image.setDesktopUnreadBadgereturnsfalsewithout callingsetOverlayIcon, so the previous overlay remains displayed. Handle thenullresult in the coordinator and clear the indicator instead of sending this payload.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@apps/web/src/components/desktop/DesktopTaskbarUnreadCoordinator.tsx`:
- Around line 77-104: The DesktopTaskbarUnreadCoordinator must handle a null
result from createTaskbarBadgeDataUrl before calling setTaskbarUnreadIndicator:
when a positive count requires a Windows badge but no image is available, clear
the indicator with count zero and no badge image instead of sending the
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Linux support is now included and manually verified on Ubuntu 24.04 with GNOME and Ubuntu Dock. |
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closing in favor of #11569, which integrates badge counts with background notifications, including completions, approvals, and input requests. it follows notification settings and clears badges on app focus rather than per-thread unread state. thanks for the work here. if the replacement misses something important, please open a new pr with the remaining change. requested by @Bil0000. |
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What Changed
When one or more threads finish while T3 Code is minimized, unfocused, or showing another thread, the desktop app now shows how many completed threads are waiting to be reviewed.
Windows uses a custom taskbar overlay so the badge stays readable at taskbar size. Counts display as
1through9, then9+. macOS and Linux use Electron's native numeric badge.The badge uses the existing completed-unread state. Opening a completed thread decreases the count, and opening the last unread thread clears the badge.
On Linux, the badge appears on docks and taskbars that support the LauncherEntry D-Bus API. T3 Code already registers a matching
.desktopidentity before Electron is ready, so the implementation can use the sameapp.setBadgeCount()path as macOS without adding a separate Linux service.This does not add toast notifications, sounds, settings, provider-specific behavior, or another notification store.
Why
T3 Code users have repeatedly asked for a reliable signal when long-running work finishes outside the active thread:
This exposes T3 Code's existing unread-completion state through native desktop badges instead of introducing notification permissions, routing, sounds, or new persisted state.
UI Changes
The screenshots show the custom Windows overlay. macOS and Linux use the system-rendered badge supplied by the user's dock or taskbar.
Verification
@t3tools/web,@t3tools/desktop, and@t3tools/contracts.Checklist
Implemented with GPT-5 in the Codex desktop app.