These strange looking things pop up when hovering the cursor over the usage side pointers in the last second section of the welcome center.
Created attachment 182374 [details] Usage parameters in welcome center showing weird icon-bubbles
I'll move this to the User Feedback KCM — they are certainly a strange UI feature and need some context as to what they are trying to convey.
This is a pretty odd UX, yeah. I think I'll have to read the code to figure out what exactly these tooltips are trying to communicate.
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/5612
Git commit 3c277146c4ec44cde54988dcd6c70b17442ad5e9 by Nate Graham. Committed on 20/06/2025 at 13:47. Pushed by ngraham into branch 'master'. kcms/feedback: remove little hover icons These icons have an unclear purpose since they have no text, and the same icons are not repeated elsewhere in the KCM's UI to provide some clue as to their meaning or purpose. They only appear on hover and can't be accessed on touch at all; let's just remove them to prevent user confusion. The backend code providing icons in the model is preserved in case we ever want to do something else with icons in the future. FIXED-IN: 6.4.1 M +0 -21 kcms/feedback/ui/main.qml https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/commit/3c277146c4ec44cde54988dcd6c70b17442ad5e9
Git commit a4e153b3451239e0efb563ecbae84e9cfec14b37 by Nate Graham. Committed on 20/06/2025 at 14:38. Pushed by ngraham into branch 'Plasma/6.4'. kcms/feedback: remove little hover icons These icons have an unclear purpose since they have no text, and the same icons are not repeated elsewhere in the KCM's UI to provide some clue as to their meaning or purpose. They only appear on hover and can't be accessed on touch at all; let's just remove them to prevent user confusion. The backend code providing icons in the model is preserved in case we ever want to do something else with icons in the future. FIXED-IN: 6.4.1 (cherry picked from commit 3c277146c4ec44cde54988dcd6c70b17442ad5e9) Co-authored-by: Nate Graham <nate@kde.org> M +0 -21 kcms/feedback/ui/main.qml https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/commit/a4e153b3451239e0efb563ecbae84e9cfec14b37
Code cleanup FTW!