SUMMARY This is a user interface design suggestion. When viewing the count of updates in Discover, currently it is a number in brackets just after the word "Updates". I think it would look more modern to have the count shown in a coloured "badge" or a "pill" or whatever the terminology is, right-aligned (in left-to-right languages), like is commonly used in email clients for a count of unread messages. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Wait for some updates to be available 2. Run Discover 3. Look at the Updates entry in the left-hand pane OBSERVED RESULT The word "Updates (x)" where x is the number of updates, plus an exclamation mark badge right-aligned. EXPECTED RESULT The word "Updates" on the left, plus the number of updates in the badge right-aligned. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20250923 KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.18.0 Qt Version: 6.9.2 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Currently, Discover will show "Updates (0)" when there are no updates. If this suggested change is done and the count is zero, I think the coloured badge should not appear at all, so that it doesn't draw the eye, so it should just say "Updates" on its own.
Created attachment 185251 [details] Current Discover update count display
Created attachment 185252 [details] Thunderbird unread email messages count
Created attachment 185254 [details] Amateur mockup of suggested Discover update count
Sure, seems like a good idea. Wanna implement it? Shouldn't be too hard.
Hi all, already implemented that, please take a look at attached mocks, what design would be appropriate? 1. Kirigami.Card with background (I'm leaning towards this) 2. Kirigami.Card without background 3. Kirigami.ShadowedRectangle
Created attachment 185794 [details] Updates count badge mocks
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/discover/-/merge_requests/1186
Git commit 3f860a4df8f77520c2b70a1d4a3c925ee6f64f09 by Aleix Pol Gonzalez, on behalf of Taras Oleksyn. Committed on 14/12/2025 at 18:31. Pushed by apol into branch 'master'. Replace updates icon with count badge in drawer Replace the icon indicator for updates with a badge that displays the actual update count. FIXED-IN: 6.6.0 M +7 -8 discover/qml/ActionListItem.qml M +50 -1 discover/qml/DiscoverDrawer.qml M +3 -1 discover/qml/DiscoverWindow.qml https://invent.kde.org/plasma/discover/-/commit/3f860a4df8f77520c2b70a1d4a3c925ee6f64f09