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Trump Adds 'Stay Away from BRICS' to His Tariff Wars
U.S. President Donald Trump employed two Truth Social posts yesterday, both to impose a tariff penalty on countries working with the BRICS and to bring added pressure upon countries that have not yet submitted to an increase in tariffs with Washingto…David Shavin (EIR News)
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in reply to OsrsNeedsF2P • • •lordnikon
in reply to OsrsNeedsF2P • • •everett
in reply to OsrsNeedsF2P • • •KDE Devs, I Love You, But Please Remove This Feature
KDE DiscussEllie
in reply to everett • • •MyNameIsRichard
in reply to Ellie • • •raspberriesareyummy
in reply to MyNameIsRichard • • •How about choosing different default settings in an installation based on a central "expert" vs "newbie" setting?
Cris
in reply to raspberriesareyummy • • •People who find computers useful should be using computers.
This weird idea from some linux users that only people who see their computer as a hobby and have mastery over them should be allowed to use them, and that computers should be designed exclusively around the needs of computer-as-hobby users, is absolutely nuts.
Its a tool. It should be designed to be useful as possible to anyone who needs such a tool.
Sincerely,
Another linux user who cares about UI/UX and is tired of this kind of junk. It's a dumb argument, let's all stop making it please. Linux supports all your "technical user" wildest dreams, let the average people have their features and design considerations too.
raspberriesareyummy
in reply to Cris • • •Twenty years ago I might have agreed. Now, in hindsight, I can say that giving everyone access to computers & thereby the internet has brought out the worst in humanity, including mass-manipulation and authoritarian regimes thanks to people making even worse calls in elections than they used to.
0_o7
in reply to raspberriesareyummy • • •This is really getting that "old man screams at the cloud" vibe.
Are you okay?
blackbrook
in reply to raspberriesareyummy • • •The devil is in how things are made useful to users who just want to get things done. The problems comes with corporations making decisions about what users should need to understand, and what users want. There's been a lot of dumbing down and manipulation in that process, serving the needs of those corporations and advertisers and not the needs of the users.
Software can be made useful for those who don't want or need to undertand all the details, in a good, non-harmful way. The principle of separation of interface and implementation even demands it. But our society being what it is, that largely doesn't happen, so I'm inclined to agree with your pessimistic take.
MyNameIsRichard
in reply to raspberriesareyummy • • •Nailbar
in reply to raspberriesareyummy • • •I recently installer something, and KDE showed me where it ended up in the launcher, which I appreciated, and now I'm not supposed to use a computer. Really? Thanks.
At least me wife will be happy, but I'll need to find new work.
Ferk
in reply to raspberriesareyummy • • •What qualifies as "expert" setting can be very divisive.. for me, it would be removing this menu entirely. Or even switching from KDE to sway or similar ^^U
But if I was the kind of people that do use this kind of menus I would probably find that kind of indication useful. It helps finding the category the app you just installed belongs to. If you install an educational app/game that teaches programming by giving instructions to a turtle in order to draw a graphic/picture (I think I have seen something like that before): which category should it be at? games? education? development? graphics?
raspberriesareyummy
in reply to Ferk • • •everett
in reply to raspberriesareyummy • • •Welcome to a future of forever arguing which features are gimmicks.
This one, for example, is not.
vandsjov
in reply to raspberriesareyummy • • •Everything in the desktop is a gimmick... remove all visible things of the desktop and only show apps. Settings can be handled in a text configuration file. Or are some of these gimmicks actually useful, even for "experts"?
I have many times, installing a new app on a Windows Server, just gone in and seen the latest installed app and clicked on it. Sorry, that is my best example as that is where I most often use this feature - I don't install that many apps on my desktops.
HelloRoot
in reply to OsrsNeedsF2P • • •There is a setting, but I was equally annoyed that it is on by default.
Even more surprising - when I launched the new app miltiple times, it was still marked as new.
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MentalEdge
in reply to HelloRoot • • •It's probably time based.
And this kind of thing isn't for the type of people who mess with settings. If this defaulted to off, then it would actually be useless.
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HelloRoot
in reply to MentalEdge • • •Would just be the other way around with what posts you see online. Instead of OP you'd see "how can I find my newly installed apps" and the same "ahem" screenshot reply.
vandsjov
in reply to HelloRoot • • •Except that if people don't know the feature exists, they might not ask about it. If you see the feature exists and you don't want it, it is easier to figure out how to turn it off.
There are many feature that are turned on by default - this is just one of them.
HelloRoot
in reply to vandsjov • • •I see plenty of posts here, on the kde matrix, on the kde forums, on the bugtracker asking for non existing features.
I have no clue about the exact percentages, their motivations or feelings, so it's hard to conclude anything.
Personally, I more often ask for nonexistent features (and i feel no barriers there) than turning off something that is on by default - which is a good sign I guess?
vandsjov
in reply to HelloRoot • • •Strit
in reply to OsrsNeedsF2P • • •like this
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in reply to OsrsNeedsF2P • • •Cas
in reply to OsrsNeedsF2P • • •I’m glad there’s a toggle, it seems like it would actually be useful here but I’d probably turn it off.
With that said, there’s a special place in hell for the multitudes of apps that have red notification dots all over the UI with no clear indicator as to what they’re about or how to clear them 😁
mnmalst
in reply to OsrsNeedsF2P • • •I cannot wrap my head around the use case of this. Is the attention span of people really this degraded in 2025 that they need to be reminded what program they just installed?
I think the author has a valid point. This just clutters the UI and adds unnecessary mental load by directing your focus to the indicators every time you open the application menu.
Don't get me wrong, I am not against a "new" label in every context but in this specific case it just feels unnecessary.
*edit: If the use case is: Little Timmy installed a new program on grandmas PC and now she can see the new program better I guarantee you grandma will be super confused when the green dot disappears and from that time on can't find the program anymore.
I support a couple of KDE systems with users like Grandma and a dynamic UI like this is contra productive in my experience.
For grandma you put the app she is supposed to use in the taskbar as a starter and that's it. No "new" label needed.
dan
in reply to mnmalst • • •mnmalst
in reply to dan • • •Aiwendil
in reply to mnmalst • • •You can set most KDE menus to show the "Comment" key of the .desktop files instead of the "Name" key. So "KDE Advanced Text Editor" instead of "Kate".
Packages can come with several "programs" that aren't necessarily named the same as the package. Example: Calibre installs menu items for "Calibre", "EBookViewer" and "EBookEditor" on my distro.
It's not about forgetting...it' about helping to quickly find what you just installed and what is all included.
mnmalst
in reply to Aiwendil • • •TrickDacy
in reply to mnmalst • • •MentalEdge
in reply to mnmalst • • •I dunno man.
It's not like linux applications ever have different app-names in the menu, when compared to the package name you just saw when installing it.
mnmalst
in reply to MentalEdge • • •ian
in reply to MentalEdge • • •I'm interested in usability, am not a beginner and I know my UI and settings well. I can see why people find this tiny green dot useful. It's OK if you are not into usability. But note that there are many different user types, with different needs at different times.
And the flexibility of KDE Plasma makes it a really great desktop environment.
Ferk
in reply to mnmalst • • •It's more about which category a particular specific software belongs. If a kid installs an educational app/game that teaches programming by giving instructions to a turtle in order to draw a graphic/picture (I think I have seen something like that before). Which category should it be? games? education? development? graphics?
I personally don't use this kind of menus with categories, I prefer dmenu style launchers where you type to search what you need. But if I was the kind of people that do use this kind of menus I would probably find that kind of indication useful.
mnmalst
in reply to Ferk • • •deadcade
in reply to OsrsNeedsF2P • • •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.
raspberriesareyummy
in reply to deadcade • • •KDawful reminds me again why I ditched it for XFCE.
mriswith
in reply to deadcade • • •I'm assume youre talking about W11?
Because the "Show recently added apps" setting is third option in the start menu settings on W10.
deadcade
in reply to mriswith • • •mriswith
in reply to deadcade • • •Captain Aggravated
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in reply to Captain Aggravated • • •nightofmichelinstars
in reply to deadcade • • •Ferk
in reply to nightofmichelinstars • • •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.
nightofmichelinstars
in reply to Ferk • • •whaleross
in reply to OsrsNeedsF2P • • •For every change there is an angry Linux user. Even when it is easily disabled and never a problem again.
On the flip side - how often do you install new programs so this becomes an annoyance in the first place?
I install something new maybe once a month or less for desktop use. I have not even noticed this blip.
Somewhat more often in and for terminal use.
ikidd
in reply to OsrsNeedsF2P • • •floquant
in reply to ikidd • • •DonutsRMeh
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in reply to ikidd • • •NewNewAugustEast
in reply to OsrsNeedsF2P • • •I find this complaint very strange. It's a dot. It helps people find what they installed.
But if this person doesn't need it, how would they ever see it? Most power users I know never even look in the menu, so they would never know there is a dot in the first place.
DonutsRMeh
in reply to NewNewAugustEast • • •Grass
in reply to OsrsNeedsF2P • • •DonutsRMeh
in reply to OsrsNeedsF2P • • •limelight79
in reply to DonutsRMeh • • •When I install a new application, I generally run it immediately. Having the new indicator might be nice to help find it - they don't always drop into the menu where I expect.
I agree, I can't see why it upsets the author so much. "You've installed a new app, here it is." "YYYEEEAAAARRRRGGGGHHHHHHH!"
AnitaAmandaHuginskis
in reply to OsrsNeedsF2P • • •Aristotelis
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