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.

If this defaulted to off, then it would actually be useless.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

I'm assume youre talking about W11?

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

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.

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!"