https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=455950
Bug ID: 455950 Summary: users don't understand widgets (closing) Product: kde Version: unspecified Platform: Neon Packages OS: Linux Status: REPORTED Severity: wishlist Priority: NOR Component: general Assignee: unassigned-b...@kde.org Reporter: dchme...@gmail.com Target Milestone: --- SUMMARY Users don't understand widgets with no visible way to close (such as battery, calendar, clipboard, discs & devices, keyboard layout, lock keys, networks, notifications, night colour, printers, volume, weather forecast, etc.) STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Accidentally open widget. 2. See no X to close it. 3. Maybe can't use PC without invisible closing expert help. OBSERVED RESULT Users don't understand widgets with no visible way to close (such as battery, calendar, clipboard, discs & devices, keyboard layout, lock keys, networks, notifications, night colour, printers, volume, weather forecast, etc.) EXPECTED RESULT 𝘝𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 option to close widgets (not invisible!) SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: KDE neon User - 5.25 KDE Plasma Version: [up-to-date one minute ago] KDE Frameworks Version: [up-to-date one minute ago] Qt Version: [up-to-date one minute ago] ADDITIONAL INFORMATION I administer KDE Neon GNU/Linux PCs for seniors who started using PCs with MS-DOS & Windows 3. They do not know what system-tray is (despite being told 100+ times) let alone widgets (despite being told 10+ times) and haven't been able to learn one must press same area that opened widget to close. Even I (BSc CS started with MS-DOS & no Windows) took time to learn. They're smart users (science PhD, MA) but you can't expect users who didn't grow up with PCs to learn more about them than they might about their car engines. Maybe this won't be a problem in 50 years but currently billions still don't understand PCs, and unnecessary pad/tab(let) conventions on desktop are making it hard for many... so certain older Apple & Windows 3 conventions shouldn't be dropped (X to close, types of program launcher groups/managers/menus, but I'm diverging now...) On top of it all, I noticed KDE Plasma panel is regularly unresponsive, which I think might've always been case (since KDEP4) though happened more to me when mining ethereum, etc... now I do use a miner that says it'll take it more easily because a monitor is detected, though I don't know still slows non-game usage... I know if I open some number over 10 programs panel halts for hours, but have to investigate/count how many and whether also widgets not just on my but users' PCs (isn't mining during their usage, at daytime.) -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.