[PATCH notification] spec: Add badge-number hint

[Bastien Nocera]

On Mon, 2015-02-16 at 09:37 -0800, Jasper St. Pierre wrote:
> Why and how?

How what?

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

I'd like some explanations as to why this decision was made though. This
is useful for a number of applications, and would be configurable
through the "Notifications" panel in GNOME (which we didn't have when
this design decision was taken I guess).

The server can also choose not to implement it (or cannot).

> 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
>