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KDE Devs, I Love You, But Please Remove This Feature (discuss.kde.org)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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[–] 45 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I was very annoyed when I got this, but remembered that it's KDE, and turning it off is 4 clicks. Proprietary software often doesn't allow you to turn this off (easily). Windows has this "feature", where is the setting?

I don't think it's a productive "feature", but considering it can be turned off so easily I don't consider it a complete showstopper.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It sounds like the author of the article is more concerned with the incentive it creates for developers to push useless or sloppy updates ("impact driven development") than the UX.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    How does this give incentive for that?

    My understanding is that this only happens in newly installed apps, not recently updates ones. They are only highlighted because the user installed them, not because the developer did anything.

    It's a screenshot of the application launcher, the menu to launch apps already installed, not the software store.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Windows has this "feature", where is the setting?

    I assume youre talking about W11?

    Because the "Show recently added apps" setting is third option in the start menu settings on W10.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The main issue is UX imo. On Windows 11, it's "5 clicks", but you have to open the settings app and find the setting two submenus deep. On KDE, it's right click > configure application launcher > toggle setting > apply.

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