▲ 181 ▼ What we plan to remove in Plasma 6 (pointieststick.com) submitted 3 years ago by leo@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show to c/linux@lemmy.ml 31 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 9 points 3 years ago (1 child) Can anyone explain Windowed Widgets to me? I don't know if I used it or not. permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ace@lemmy.ananace.dev 10 points 3 years ago (1 child) Basically, you can open some widgets inside a standalone window instead of attaching them to a bar/desktop, making them act like some kind of standalone application instead - including losing all their state as soon as their window is closed. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 1 point 3 years ago (1 child) Actually very cool! Unfortunate that some people used them wrongly. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ace@lemmy.ananace.dev 5 points 3 years ago The only widget I've found in any way useful as a detached window like that has been the sticky note, and even there the usability is limited compared to just opening kwrite - or any other simple text editor. It's definitely an interesting - if quite useless and potentially confusing - feature, but it makes complete sense to drop it from core and instead let it live as an extension instead, since it's quite literally just a krunner runner anyway. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ace@lemmy.ananace.dev 10 points 3 years ago (1 child) Basically, you can open some widgets inside a standalone window instead of attaching them to a bar/desktop, making them act like some kind of standalone application instead - including losing all their state as soon as their window is closed. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 1 point 3 years ago (1 child) Actually very cool! Unfortunate that some people used them wrongly. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ace@lemmy.ananace.dev 5 points 3 years ago The only widget I've found in any way useful as a detached window like that has been the sticky note, and even there the usability is limited compared to just opening kwrite - or any other simple text editor. It's definitely an interesting - if quite useless and potentially confusing - feature, but it makes complete sense to drop it from core and instead let it live as an extension instead, since it's quite literally just a krunner runner anyway. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 1 point 3 years ago (1 child) Actually very cool! Unfortunate that some people used them wrongly. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ace@lemmy.ananace.dev 5 points 3 years ago The only widget I've found in any way useful as a detached window like that has been the sticky note, and even there the usability is limited compared to just opening kwrite - or any other simple text editor. It's definitely an interesting - if quite useless and potentially confusing - feature, but it makes complete sense to drop it from core and instead let it live as an extension instead, since it's quite literally just a krunner runner anyway. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ace@lemmy.ananace.dev 5 points 3 years ago The only widget I've found in any way useful as a detached window like that has been the sticky note, and even there the usability is limited compared to just opening kwrite - or any other simple text editor. It's definitely an interesting - if quite useless and potentially confusing - feature, but it makes complete sense to drop it from core and instead let it live as an extension instead, since it's quite literally just a krunner runner anyway. permalink fedilink source parent