Ubuntu Dock Now Shows Badges and Progress Bars for Pinned Apps on Ubuntu 17.10

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

With only two days left until the upcoming Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark) operating system hits the Final Beta milestone, developers are still working on adding finishing touches to this release, and they’ve again improved the Ubuntu Dock.

In his latest report, Ubuntu contributor Didier Roche talks about the Ubuntu Dock, a dock implementation for Ubuntu 17.10 based on the popular Dash to Dock extension for the GNOME 3 desktop environment. This time, the developer managed to add support for progress bar and badges for pinned apps to the Ubuntu Dock.

“One of the latest things we wanted to work on as we highlighted on our previous posts is the notification for new emails or download experience on the Shell,” said Didier Roche. “Similarly, we now have progress bar support on Nautilus, Firefox downloads and every applications using that API to get updated on transactional actions.”

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