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
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    3 months 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.

    • nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz
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      3 months 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
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        3 months 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.