Add a badge to the activity bar icon

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Original author: claudiodangelis
Original created at: 2018-08-14T10:09:28Z
Original URL: fabiospampinato#100

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Do you think it is possible to include the number of TODOs in the sidebar's icon like other extensions do?

In the screenshot, the git extension icon shows the number of pending changes.

If possible, I would like to help you on this, thank you!

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Original comment by ghost at 2018-08-14T18:45:11Z:

Unfortunately there is no api to implement this but it would be very cool to have. I think the issue for this is microsoft/vscode#38426. There might be another issue specifically mentioning activity bar badges, but I can't seem to recall it.

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Original comment by fabiospampinato at 2018-08-15T11:20:19Z:

As @nealot said I don't think there's an API available for doing that at the moment.

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Original comment by fabiospampinato at 2018-08-15T17:53:17Z:

It looks like some badges can be actually added to the tree for file items. Maybe I'll look into that, but I would also like to be able to add badges to other kinds of tree items thought, i.e. projects and types, so maybe I'll wait until that's also implemented.

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Original comment by usernamehw at 2018-11-10T13:21:31Z:

Issue for allowing extensions to contribute activity bar badges: microsoft/vscode#62783

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Original comment by hamirmahal at 2022-01-19T16:56:20Z:

For anyone watching this issue, the adding badges to activity bar icons feature seems to be in-progress as of yesterday, Tuesday, January 18, 2021.

By the way, this issue is the second search result for me after searching

vscode add badge api

so I imagine other people will end up here, too, when searching for how to add badges to activity bar icons.