Review Request 128188: [OS X] Show job progress with Dock icon badge

[René J.V. Bertin]

> On June 14, 2016, 9:30 p.m., Kai Uwe Broulik wrote:
> > What QtCreator actually does and what I actually wanted to have was the number of build errors/warnings in the dock, not the amount of running jobs.
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> > Also, it seems the background parser is registered as regular job and totally screws up the total progress I calculate. :/
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> Kevin Funk wrote:
>     Oh, I just confused what the 'badge text' actually is. I'm with Kai here, that's what I'd like to see, too.

I made but forgot to add a screenshot; corrected. Not that there's anything one can control about how the badge looks...

There's no reason one couldn't have both a progress indicator and an error/warnings count, provided there's an appropriate place to store that count so it can be restored by the RunController. Where does one find the information? FWIW: Qt Creator/Mac only shows the number of errors on the Dock icon.

You're absolutely right that the current progress indicator isn't ideal. Usually applications show a true progress bar on the Dock icon (there's a stale one left on the App folder icon in my screenshot). Creator does this too, despite the fact there doesn't seem to be anything foreseen in Qt to obtain such a display. I'll have a look how they implement that.

Kai: that remark about the parser progress confuses me. It doesn't seem to screw up anything in the calculation we make, it is simply missing. Does the background parser put up its own progress bar in that lower-right corner, a bit like Kdevelop4 could have multiple progress bars showing up when you activate the detailed view?


- René J.V.


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On June 14, 2016, 8:42 p.m., René J.V. Bertin wrote:
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> (Updated June 14, 2016, 8:42 p.m.)
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> Review request for KDE Software on Mac OS X and KDevelop.
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> Repository: kdevplatform
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> Description
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> This is a follow-up to https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/127050/, providing a job progress indication in the Dock (and app switcher), by badging the application icon.
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> Is it correct that the `RunController` is not used by the (Clang) parser? If so, shouldn't this progress indication (and the Unity one) be moved to the method that updates the progress bar in KDevelop's lower right corner?
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> Diffs
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>   shell/CMakeLists.txt 19a9560 
>   shell/runcontroller.cpp 1a411da 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/128188/diff/
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> Testing
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> Works on OS X 10.9.5 with Qt 5.6.0 and frameworks 5.22.0
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> File Attachments
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> progress badge on a Dock icon
>   https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2016/06/14/e800031a-378b-46fb-88cf-ee55c78d7a1f__Screen_Shot_2016-06-14_at_20.30.55.png
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> Thanks,
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> René J.V. Bertin
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