Feature request: Tray notifications and taskbar progress

[timonsku]

Let me first say that I absolutely love this project. Its exactly what I was searching for months and fullfills nearly all my wishes for a HTML5 desktop app runtime. Keep it going!

I did a few projects with node-webkit now and noticed two things that I think would be a great addition.
Firstly, tray notifications. I think all three plattforms support this in some way. In windows its the speech bubbles, programms in the tray can open to notify the user about a certain event (like a software update or finished download). I know debian and ubuntu have also a notification feature and I know that OSX has notifications aswell. In addition to that the taskbar highlighting feature to request user interaction present in all 3 plattforms would be a cool thing aswell. On windows its the orange blinking, on OSX the jumping of the icon and on Linux the shaking of the icon.

Another thing that I find to be usefull is the possiblity to show the progress of an applications task (for example a download) in the taskbar icon. On windows its the progressing coloring of the "bar" on OSX its a little blue bar within the icon and on Ubuntu and the like its a small colored bar aswell (to be seen in the software update tool f.e.).

Those features would enhance the feel of an native application even more in my opinion.

[ChristianWeyer]

Is this actively being tracked (or even worked on)?

[timonsku]

Doesn't look like it.
I would have started something but this goes beyond my expertise.

[felixlemaignen]

I'm also very interested by the progress bar functionality.

[trevorlinton]

I've implemented a patch for native notifications, and am taking a look at implementing status bar progress.

You can find the patch on my repo at:
trevorlinton@a2f73c4
trevorlinton@c655c21
trevorlinton@b334aaa

Status bar progress open issue:
trueinteractions#70

[timonsku]

Awesome! I will try that out on windows and ubuntu (if I get node-webkit compiled by myself)

[jtg-gg]

I've just made a pull request for these feature
#2175

[timonsku]

This awesome! Can't wait for the next release. I was planning to make an app in the next weeks that can really use exactly that.

Are text-bubble style notifications also possible? Really not sure if thats actually a windows only thing.

Though the "number thingie" is a really great feature aswell, haven't actually seen that in any windows app so far.

[rogerwang]

You can try this feature now for the live build: http://dl.node-webkit.org/live-build/

@PTS93 the notification feature is released with 0.10.1 and progress bar is in git and live build.

[timonsku]

Oh awesome, I didn't know there were daily builds. I will test those new features thoroughly on all platforms.

On another note, I would like to modify the windows implementation so you could add a optional parameter to the function call for the progress bar status flag. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd391697%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
Or maybe @jtg-gg wants to add that him/herself.
Though is that the "good way" to do it? To have an optional parameter that doesn't do anything on some platforms?
I'm not exactly familiar with native multi-platform development.

E: Just saw in the code that you can even set an RGB value for the bar on OSX, surely good to have that broken out aswell.