• SSUPII
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    1 year ago

    Can anyone explain Windowed Widgets to me? I don’t know if I used it or not.

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      1 year ago

      Basically, you can open some widgets inside a standalone window instead of attaching them to a bar/desktop, making them act like some kind of standalone application instead - including losing all their state as soon as their window is closed.

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        1 year ago

        Actually very cool! Unfortunate that some people used them wrongly.

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          The only widget I’ve found in any way useful as a detached window like that has been the sticky note, and even there the usability is limited compared to just opening kwrite - or any other simple text editor.

          It’s definitely an interesting - if quite useless and potentially confusing - feature, but it makes complete sense to drop it from core and instead let it live as an extension instead, since it’s quite literally just a krunner runner anyway.