This week there was a flurry of UI polishing work and a nice new feature to go along with the usual background level of bug-fixing. Some of the changes are quite consequential, being minor pain points for years. So hopefully this should be a crowd-pleasing week! If that's the case, consider directing your pleased-ness at KDE's year-end fundraiser! As of the time of writing, we're at 98% of our goal, and it would be amazing to get to 100% by the end of November!
When you’ve disabled window thumbnails in the Task Manager widget, it now shows normal tooltips for open windows, rather than nothing at all. (Nate Graham, 6.3.0. Link)
Hey, I actually loved having no tooltip at all. But I understand the reason for the change in terms of user friendlyness, let’s see if I might actually like it.
Can anyone confirm that this doesn’t prevent a monochromatic emoji being chosen by default? I deliberately uninstalled google-noto-emoji-color-fonts to replace it with google-noto-emoji-fonts. I’d rather not have colour icons from whatever font on my OS provides them chosen instead of them.
I agree, tooltips in Task Manager can be very distracting and since they may just indicate the name of the application (which is already represented by the icon), they can be annoying with the fade animation.
There should be an option in Task Manager settings to hide tooltips completely (even when they’re displaying media controls), since windows can always be closed from the right-click menu.
For example:
Show application description on hover
But I understand the reason for the change in terms of user friendlyness, let’s see if I might actually like it.