Plasma 6 has switched to using switches instead of checkboxes in the plasma theme. On a default installation of the Fedora KDE spin, there are 6 switches:
Network applet: 1 for Wi-fi and 1 for airplane mode
Brightness & color applet: 1 for night light
Power & battery applet: 1 for manually block sleep and screen locking
Audio volume applet: 1 for raise maximum volume
Bluetooth applet: 1 for enable bluetooth
When the last 3 switches are activated, there is a blue circle around the handle of the switch. This is different from the first 3 switches which do not show this circle. Why is this different?
Thank you. On another note, the last 3 switches are triggered by pressing space, while the first 3 aren’t. Why is this behavior different? Shouldn’t all switches have keyboard focus when I click on the respective plasmoid?
Clicking on a switch triggers the execution immediately, but ticking a checkbox changes only its visual appearance and the execution can be triggered via another control like Apply/Cancel buttons.
You can trigger immediate execution for a checkbox. But a switch is preferred for this use case.