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Feedback Add opened project's icon to the Unity icon in OS Taskbar / Dock [Feature Request]

Discussion in 'Editor & General Support' started by fiveampsoftware, May 11, 2020.

  1. fiveampsoftware

    fiveampsoftware

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    I've seen other apps do this well and most recently reminded of it by seeing Rider utilize it to render some extra status.
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    When you have multiple instances of Unity open, it can become a game of remembering which is which and it would be nice to have a little icon with some extra indicator of what project is open if any. Unity already does add some indication to show when it's doing work (importing, reloading, etc):


    One idea is to have the default project icon connected in ProjectSettings to be shown on the dock's icon too.
     
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  2. Moonjump

    Moonjump

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    Thank you. I really like that idea.
     
  3. hessel_mm

    hessel_mm

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    A thousand times this, I lose so much time with guessing which unity icon is which project :(
     
  4. timrobin

    timrobin

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    Please, please add this, on Mac without a project preview when switching with Cmd+tab it's nearly impossible to remember which Unity instance is for which project :/
     
    Last edited: May 16, 2022
  5. Arthur-LVGameDev

    Arthur-LVGameDev

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