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...
  • IceFoxX@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 hours ago

    open application launcher… upper right corner open settings… turn off the feature 🙄

  • Ferk@lemmy.ml
    61·
    7 hours ago

    How does this have anything to do with “impact driven development”?

    I think the person is either misunderstanding the purpose of the indicator or has PTSD from seeing that kind of highlights somewhere else. This only highlights what the user has installed recently so that they can find where in the menu was it added. It’s tied to user action, not the developers of the app doing any update or anything like this…

    • BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      6 hours ago

      Yeah I agree.

      I also don’t like the green dots and new tags - I do see how it is reminiscent of the bloat on Windows start menus even if the motivation is very different. But if I recall they can be turned off so I’d don’t see the issue.

      I’m also not a fan of someone donating €100 and then saying “I’ll donate another €100 if you remove this feature”.

    • mmmm@sopuli.xyz
      2·
      8 hours ago

      Saw it and couldn’t help laughing.

      OTOH being so customizable seems to be a double-edged sword: people can customize almost everything they want but some can find that overwhelming or don’t even want to spend time looking for a setting.

  • PonyOfWar@pawb.social
    23·
    13 hours ago

    It seems useful to me. When you’ve installed a new application you can immediately see which category it was put in. That said, glad it can be turned off for those who don’t like it.

  • dan@upvote.au
    9·
    12 hours ago

    I like this feature because sometimes apps have weird names and I can’t remember what they’re called a day or two later.

    • adry@piefed.socialEnglish
      11·
      11 hours ago

      OMG, the green dot last days?! I’ve just disabled the option. Not my cup of tea, I do remember app names. And I always use Krunner or search inside the App launcher. In all honesty, sometimes it does take some effort… but there are advantages, I can recommend software to people without resorting to a net searx or chatbot convo.