Add badge to os icon and profilist icon per profile

[Noitidart]

Credits to evacchi for the beautiful idea: evacchi/firefox-custom-badge#1

[Noitidart]

WinXP

Last Updated June 22, 2014

Progress 83%

• Badge overlays activity icon in toolbarbutton of Profilist menu
• Toolbarbutton activity icon is filled black if profile is running, if it is not it is just a thick outline
• Badge in Alt + Tab menu
• Badge on icon of all popup windows
• Badge on icons in taskbar
• Windows of each profile should group into their own separate group on taskbar
  • Appropriate badge on group icon

[Noitidart]

Win7

Last Updated Jan 30, 2015

Progress 100%

• Badge overlays activity icon in toolbarbutton of Profilist menu
• Toolbarbutton activity icon is filled black if profile is running, if it is not it is just a thick outline
• Badge in Alt + Tab menu
• Badge on icon of all popup windows
• Badge on icons in taskbar
• Windows of each profile should group into their own separate group on taskbar
• Appropriate badge on group icon
  • When unpinned
  • When pinned
• If pin a launched profile, it should re-launch that profile next time

[Noitidart]

Notes on setting icon in Mac:

• Can force show titlebar with setRepresentedURL to see if icon change. Topic: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7449950/nswindow-shows-an-icon-with-the-window-path-how-can-i-remove-it
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/392797/how-do-i-draw-a-badge-on-my-dock-icon-using-cocoa
• https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Carbon/Conceptual/customizing_docktile/docktasks_cocoa/docktasks_cocoa.html
• https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Carbon/Conceptual/customizing_docktile/docktasks_cocoa/docktasks_cocoa.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP30000986-CH3-SW2
• https://github.com/vasi/firefox-dock-progress/blob/master/src/DockProgressC.m

notes from irc:
becuase of RedrawIcon: http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-release/source/widget/cocoa/nsMacDockSupport.mm#156

mstange well, the code there doesn't make it easy
12:01 mstange if you just overwrite the dock icon with your own one, your replacement is going to be overwritten as soon as nsMacDockSupport::RedrawIcon() is called again
12:01 noida yea
12:02 noida and it does that on downloads or something
12:02 noida so i have to replace the icon that RedrawIcon uses
12:02 noida like nightly uses the nightly background
12:02 noida aurora uses aurora
12:02 noida so when RedrawIcon calls it will use my modified icon as bg
12:03 mstange how did you do that?
12:03 noida didnt yet just brainstorming
12:03 mstange ah ok
12:03 mstange but I don't see how you can get access to mAppIcon or mProgressBackground
12:04 noida oh shoot thx for that note, thx for brainstorming with me
12:04 mstange I suppose you could swizzle -[NSApplication setApplicationIconImage:]
12:04 noida hahaha
12:04 noida swizzle means hijak?
12:05 mstange yes, but this method is actually called swizzling
12:05 mstange see for example http://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/widget/cocoa/nsAppShell.mm#301

noida no problem thx man for the help. btw do you know what it means to " swizzle -[NSApplication setApplicationIconImage:]"
12:08 Yoric I mean, a ChromeWorker can't call into xpcom.
12:08 Yoric Sorry about that.
12:08 Yoric It's a funky Objective C function call
12:08 noida o ok thx!
12:08 noida haha
12:09 Yoric If I recall correctly, [NSApplication setApplicationIconImage:] calls method setApplicationIconImage of NSApplication, without arguments.
12:09 Yoric (well, it's called a message in objective C, instead of a method call, but it's the same
thing)

[Noitidart]

For Linux check out:

• XIconifyWindow
  • http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9634451/how-can-i-change-the-taskbar-icon-using-xiconifywindow

edit: dec 9 14
For unity launcher in ubuntu:

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27112040/dynamic-icon-ubuntu-nautilus/27116006#27116006
  • http://askubuntu.com/questions/530376/association-window-desktop-file-launcher-entry
• http://askubuntu.com/questions/500544/how-to-refresh-launcher-icon-application-menu-in-ubuntu-12-04/500609#500609

[Noitidart]

Mac

Last Updated Mar 1, 2015

Progress 90%

Remaining

• Update desktop shortcut on profile rename or badge or build tie change
• Update dock icon programtically to on rename/badge/build tie change
• Double dock icon on restart issue while "kept in dock"
• OS X 10.6 IconFamily to ICNS conversion

[Noitidart]

Linux

Last Updated Apr 17, 2015

Progress 67%

• Icon creation and install as recognized icon
• Icon application
• Create launchers
• Symlink to launchers on desktop
• Figure out a way to update icons while its running on Ubuntu (seeming not possible right now)
• Ubuntu

Check out Bugzilla :: Bug 595462 - patch v1, load window icons from everywhere/from all supported formats which uses GDK to change icons. From Bugzilla :: Bug 595462 - Support loading window icons from zips, thanks to @nmaier telling me about it here: GitHubGIST :: Noitidart / _ff-addon-snippet-ChangeWindowIcon.js - Comment 4

[evacchi]

Any way I can play with this? I see a 2.0 branch, but I don't know how to package properly :)

[Noitidart]

Hey @evacchi sorry about that I got hung up with some other stuff. Let me get you the mac version its on my VM somewhere. v2.0 doesnt have the mac part merged in yet but your question motivates me to do it.

[Noitidart]

@evacchi you can grab the xpi from: https://github.com/Noitidart/Profilist/tree/mac-iconing-alpha

the one named " Porfilist 2 alpha mac iconing.xpi". To make the icon, click on main menu, then hover over profilist stack, it expands, then mouse over the imaf of the "user" (black/transparent) to the left of the profile name. Then click it, then select image or images (multi sizes of same image) to use as badge. then its badged. you can now go the options page, and then click "create shortcut" and choose the profile name. however an issue i havent figure out yet is that when running in the badged version, firefox updates seem to fail.

[evacchi]

uhm, which version of FFox should I be using? The file picker is shown, but when I pick a picture (png, jpg) no icon is shown -- and the generated files seems to be 0 bytes

[Noitidart]

Oh crap I just tested it you're right. Ok let me see whats going on Ill update you.

[Noitidart]

Fixed it @evacchi thanks for that note. It was due to a chance in Firefox 37 where array buffers were neutered: https://github.com/Noitidart/Profilist/tree/mac-iconing-alpha same xpi

so after you badge the icon from the menu, then go to preferences, and create desktop shortcut, then launch the profile from there. if you change the badge multiple times i have an issue where the desktop alias icon is not updating visually, but if you do get get info on it, you will see the icon is updated. the issue i brought up here: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/174761/make-alias-take-icon-of-the-app-it-points-to?noredirect=1#comment205991_174761 To work around it you can rename the alias to something new i dont know why this fixes it.

So anyways, you don't have to force the icon to take, you can drag that icon to dock, or just launch it, keep in dock on restart etc etc, it will show the updated icon everywhere except the dang desktop. :)

[Noitidart]

If icons dont update, you have to open terminal and do killall Dock and killall Finder, Im trying to figure out whats going on here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32848607/icon-not-taking-on-desktop-but-taking-everywhere-else

Or you dont have to killall just right click and "Show in Finder" to update the dock item, and on desktop rename the alias to have like a space at the end, watch this vid for demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZtmJVanmbw

[Noitidart]

@evacchi how did it work out for you?

[Noitidart]

@evacchi I created and released an addon that allows you to provide png(s) for base and png(s) for badge and it will create a ICNS for you check it out: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/icon-container-generator/

[evacchi]

ha! that's neat. so if I got it right:

• I'm supposed to pick an icon by clicking the small profile icon in the drop down
• then I should create a stand-alone OS X alias/app launcher and start the profile from there
  (in fact, that's the only way I can start a separate profile, apparently, since clicking the profile name does not start it; at least for me)

This approach does work, but I though you had found a way to avoid creating the launcher in the first place, by badging the firefox icon "on the fly"; this can be easily done with a text label (as I did with my small addon), but I'm not sure about an arbitrary icon. The point of my addon was to avoid creating the desktop alias :)

BTW, still props for the effort!

[Noitidart]

@evacchi :)

The on fly thing works but it has major quirks. You cannot right click on the icon and keep in dock. It will think it is the main profile. If you have it running, and shutdown your computer, and told it to restart with last open programs, it will open with main profile.

So I had to make the alias :(

But you can use this addon to set it on the fly: https://github.com/Noitidart/Firefox-on-OS-X-Icon

And correct, I didn't hook up the buttons in the toolbar to launch the profile yet in that version. Launching from that alias is the only way. :( I have a hidden one, so in the non-alpha, it launches that hidden one, so a desktop alias is not required, but in this alpha version this parts not setup.

[Noitidart]

@evacchi updated in a huge way, this is true beta version - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/profilist/versions/beta

Its in beta until I can get a patch in on Firefox. As on Mac the update mechansim is broken on profiles launched from Profilist menu, or by desktop launchers created by Profilist.