Chatpane Files

Carrier 1.10 completes the platform trilogy: Windows now gets the native integration macOS and Linux already had — a taskbar unread badge, real toast notifications with quick reply, a jump list, and more.

What's New

• Unread badge on the taskbar. The unread count now rides the Windows taskbar button as an overlay badge (1–9, then 9+), on every Messenger window — no longer buried in the tray tooltip.
• Native toasts with quick reply. New-message notifications are proper Windows toasts with the sender's avatar, grouped per conversation and cleared when you open the thread. When the preview isn't hidden they carry a Reply box and an Open button, so you can answer without switching windows — from the toast or from Action Center, even after the banner has timed out.
• Flash the taskbar on new messages. Settings → Notifications → Flash Taskbar Icon flashes Carrier's taskbar button when a message arrives while it's unfocused. Clear When Viewed works on Windows now too.
• Monochrome tray icon. Choose the full-color icon or a monochrome mark that follows your taskbar's light/dark theme.
• Recent-conversations jump list. Right-click Carrier's taskbar icon for your recent conversations — the same list as the macOS Dock menu.
• carrier:// and command-line on Windows. carrier://compose, carrier://settings, and carrier://t/<id>, plus --new-conversation, --settings, and --thread <id>, open the right thing from scripts, the Run box, or shortcuts. The URL scheme registers per-user on first launch.

Internal

• The Windows toast path is a native WinRT implementation (text input, per-conversation grouping, Action Center history removal) that replaces notify-rust; unread-clearing now recognizes end-to-end-encrypted conversation paths.
• Jump-list rebuilds are serialized behind a generation check so a slow, stale rebuild can never restore conversation names after Hide Names & Avatars has cleared them.

Part of the Windows integration push (#187), following the macOS work in 1.9 and Linux in 1.8.