Apparently this specific sub-forum is moderated a bit differently than all the others, alas. See my requests below, both basically trying to achieve the same goal just in different ways (ie trying to solve my issue in a way that Unity can achieve w/ the least effort/time involved on their end).
REQUEST #1 – Command Line Interface for Unity Hub
Would really like to be able to use the Hub via CLI, as well. See this thread which I bumped yesterday , and that was locked today (lol) – my point, though, is simply that multiple people do want this.
My goal: Ability to open a Unity project, in the proper editor version, without the CLI command that is used needing to contain anything other than: A) path to the Unity Hub (constant), and; B) path-to-project.
From there, the Hub can open the project with the proper editor version based on the meta-data that it has. And of course, it can just throw an error or pop a dialog if the editor version required isn’t available, etc. – same as it does now, just from the CLI.
Basically, I have two constants: UNITY_HUB_PATH and PROJECT_DIR. The unknown is editor version & editor path (we generally are pretty-constantly upgrading through each minor release), and we don’t want to have to re-invent the wheel & track the editor version ourselves / externally.
PURPOSE / CONTEXT of this is so that we can create an alias / shortcut / bash script to open up a Unity project and, specifically on macOS, because I want to be able to set a custom “icon” for the bash script/alias – goal being that, when I have 5 Unity projects open (each in their own Unity instance), I can have the macOS ‘Dock’ icon be displaying a project-specific icon for fast visual ID / workflow reasons.
REQUEST #2 – Allow for unique macOS ‘Dock’ Icons and/or Hover Text
I explain this in further depth over in this thread which I posted on macOS sub-forum somewhat recently.
Issue is that on macOS each Unity instance in the Dock is identical, and so is the hover-text. So there’s no way to tell which currently-running Unity editor instance has which project open – which leads to clicking on each until you find the project you’re looking for. I often have 2-3 projects open at once, and occasionally I’ll even sometimes have as many as 5+ open; it’s a workflow disaster. On Windows, the “hover text” already does contain the project name (and Windows shows a thumbnail-style ‘screenshot’), which is great – basically I’d just like similar on macOS, either let me customize the editor icon per-project [ideal!], or let me add a “notification badge” to the icon per-project (ie let me pick a color in project settings), or just have the hover-text say “Unity - ${PROJECT_NAME}” instead of them all simply saying “Unity” as they do now.
Thank you.
