bug#77496: [PATCH] Add 'ns-app-badge' to set macOS / GNUstep icon badge

[Ship Mints]

On Sat, Apr 5, 2025 at 9:35 AM Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> wrote:

Ship Mints <shipmints@gmail.com> writes:

> No reason to be skeptical. The API is dead simple as is the implementation.
>
> https://multixden.blogspot.com/2023/08/gnustep-now-has-badges.html
> https://github.com/gnustep/libs-gui/blob/fcfc643e3cacdb7b455629951481ead986cdd182/Headers/AppKit/NSDockTile.h#L65
> https://github.com/gnustep/libs-gui/blob/fcfc643e3cacdb7b455629951481ead986cdd182/Source/NSDockTile.m#L122

That's good to hear.  None the less, GNUstep is too seldom used for
feature availability there to justify implementing the same features on
Mac OS, particularly when Emacs's GNUstep port is known to be unreliable
and short of other critical editing features such as Indic or Arabic
script shaping support.

Eli asked that the hurdle to be cleared was support of the same feature on a free platform.  If that hurdle is based on platform popularity, what are the precise metrics we should use to gauge such?  I'm aware of GNUstep being actively used in military, aerospace, and industrial products.  Is Haiku?  Or any other esoteric platforms that Emacs supports?