Summary: | Consider using "Minimize All" as the default behavior/widget, rather than "Show Desktop" | ||
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Product: | [Plasma] plasmashell | Reporter: | coduh |
Component: | Show Desktop/Minimize All | Assignee: | Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs> |
Status: | CONFIRMED --- | ||
Severity: | wishlist | CC: | isvand.i.blodet, marius.ryn, miranda, natalie_clarius, nate, smowtenshi |
Priority: | NOR | Keywords: | usability |
Version: | master | ||
Target Milestone: | 1.0 | ||
Platform: | Other | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
Bug Depends on: | 435253, 450137 | ||
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Description
coduh
2022-07-01 16:36:14 UTC
> I had to do Show Alternatives -> Minimize All to get the desired behavior which is what I'm used to from every other DE. Please change the default behavior to Minimize All.
So the problem is that your expectations were something else based on prior experience? It's not that there's anything actually wrong with the default "Show Desktop" behavior, it's just that you prefer the behavior of "Minimize All", right?
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1) > > I had to do Show Alternatives -> Minimize All to get the desired behavior which is what I'm used to from every other DE. Please change the default behavior to Minimize All. > > So the problem is that your expectations were something else based on prior > experience? It's not that there's anything actually wrong with the default > "Show Desktop" behavior, it's just that you prefer the behavior of "Minimize > All", right? Hi Nate, Thanks for your time. Yes, it is based on my prior experience, with every other DE that exists :) The little button on the bottom right minimizes all windows. To be honest, if it was me, I wouldn't even keep the current behavior as a second option. I would just remove it. When I think I'm on desktop, I open something and every other thing is maximized back. To me it doesn't make sense, like how is this useful? Maybe I'm missing something. Thanks again. It's useful for quickly peeking at the desktop, or for dragging something on the desktop into an app. macOS implements this, so it's familiar to people migrating from macOS, I guess. I can understand how if you come from Windows or another Linux DE, it's less familiar. Part of the issue may be the naming; see https://invent.kde.org/teams/usability/issue-board/-/issues/12 A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/1036 Git commit 890b3862ba1cc7d6507f9e635a35904aba0f90cc by Nate Graham. Committed on 14/07/2022 at 17:34. Pushed by ngraham into branch 'master'. applets/showdesktop: rename it "Peek at Desktop" This applet sometimes causes user confusion because people coming from platforms where the equivalent functionality minimizes all windows expect it to do the same thing here. But it does not, and its name and subtitle are sufficiently generic-sounding that they don't really describe what it does instead. Let's change the text to be clearer. See also https://invent.kde.org/teams/usability/issue-board/-/issues/12 M +2 -2 applets/showdesktop/package/contents/ui/main.qml M +2 -2 applets/showdesktop/package/metadata.json M +2 -2 doc/plasma-desktop/index.docbook https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/commit/890b3862ba1cc7d6507f9e635a35904aba0f90cc Yes, the other requests propose good ideas. Renaming to "Peek at Desktop" might be a solution, but I would still make "Minimize All" the default case. Looks like we need to make "Show Alternatives" more discoverable either way. Maybe add it to the description that says "Show the Plasma desktop"? (In reply to Nate Graham from comment #3) I may be missing something, but I see no point in "Peek" whatsoever. > It's useful for quickly peeking at the desktop, or for dragging something on > the desktop into an app. Can't either thing be done through minimizing all windows? |