[PATCH notification] spec: Add badge-number hint

[Jasper St. Pierre]

Why and how? Note that not giving applications the badge number was an
explicit design decision Jon, Cosimo and I made when we first introduced
notifications.

On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 9:21 AM, Bastien Nocera <hadess at hadess.net> wrote:

> As discussed during the Wayland meeting at FOSDEM 2015.
> ---
>  docs/notification-spec.xml | 17 +++++++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/docs/notification-spec.xml b/docs/notification-spec.xml
> index fa1da0b..3bc0292 100644
> --- a/docs/notification-spec.xml
> +++ b/docs/notification-spec.xml
> @@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
>  <article id="index">
>   <articleinfo>
>    <title>Desktop Notifications Specification</title>
> -  <releaseinfo>Version 1.2</releaseinfo>
> -  <date>28 October 2010</date>
> +  <releaseinfo>Version 1.3</releaseinfo>
> +  <date>16 February 2015</date>
>    <authorgroup>
>     <author>
>      <firstname>Mike</firstname>
> @@ -674,6 +674,19 @@
>        <entry>>= 1.2</entry>
>       </row>
>       <row>
> +      <entry><literal>"badge-number"</literal></entry>
> +      <entry>INT32</entry>
> +      <entry>
> +        When set, a server can use it to show the number attached to
> +        the notification on top of the application icon referenced by the
> +        "desktop-entry" hint.
> +        Note that servers can choose not to show the number, either
> because
> +        they do not implement the capability, or in response to user
> +        configuration to suppress its display.
> +      </entry>
> +      <entry>>= 1.3</entry>
> +     </row>
> +     <row>
>        <entry><literal>"category"</literal></entry>
>        <entry>STRING</entry>
>        <entry>
>
>
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  Jasper
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