Unread counts on macOS app icons cannot be turned off.
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Description
Platform
Desktop - macOS
Describe the bug
The "Show Unread Count on App Icon" feature is turned off in settings, but after exiting and reopening the app, unread counts still exist.
Relevant Information
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Reproduction Video
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Environment
Environment
App Version: 0.5.0
OS: macOS
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Folo/0.5.0 Chrome/134.0.6998.179 Electron/35.1.5 Safari/537.36
Env: electron
Browser: Chrome
Session Trace Id: Bqi2V5qqplEGFU7nxV-x8
Mode: production
Renderer: 0.5.0
Validations
- Check that there isn't already an issue that reports the same bug to avoid creating a duplicate.
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- This issue is valid
Contributions
- I am willing to submit a PR to fix this issue
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Contributor guide
First steps
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Research direction
Start by reproducing the issue in the macOS desktop app using Folo 0.5.0: turn off “Show Unread Count on App Icon,” exit, and reopen the app. Trace the setting and app-icon behavior until the persistence path is identified; done means unread counts remain hidden after relaunch.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- electron, macos, typescript
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100