I cannot explain how much I do not want to see this green dot and “New!” text in my application launcher. Rather than be a passionate contributor like you, I have regrettably become a slave to the Big Tech industry - But one thing I can provide is insight into why operating systems like iOS and Windows have this noise: Impact driven development People need to justify their work on a continuous basis, with the upside of promotions and downside of layoffs. They add the most useless feature...
  • deadcade@lemmy.deadca.de
    401·
    15 hours ago

    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.

      • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        6·
        11 hours ago

        This! KDE’s settings are a mess to navigate. I completely understand why that person didn’t know there even was a configuration for this.

    • mriswith@lemmy.worldEnglish
      91·
      14 hours ago

      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.

      • deadcade@lemmy.deadca.de
        5·
        14 hours ago

        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.

    • nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz
      2·
      12 hours ago

      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.

      • Ferk@lemmy.ml
        7·
        11 hours ago

        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.