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...
    • Ferk@lemmy.ml
      1·
      2 hours ago

      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@lemmy.zip
        1·
        2 hours ago

        You are right, the marker at the category level definitely makes sense to find the application initially.

    • dan@upvote.au
      15·
      5 hours ago

      Some apps have weird names and I forget what they’re called. Showing a “new” badge, even if it’s just for the first few times I open the app, makes it more likely that I’ll remember the app’s name.

        • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
          41·
          2 hours ago

          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.

          That has never tripped me up. No. Never.

          /S

        • Aiwendil@lemmy.ml
          8·
          4 hours ago

          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.