[plasmashell] [Bug 523868] Option to remove "New" label from newly installed application without running it

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=523868

--- Comment #5 from [email protected] ---
(In reply to cwo from comment #2)
> This seems rather narrow to me. It only applies to apps that the user
> installs but does not actually want to run, and the badge will go away after
> three days anyway. And if you really want the badge gone now, why not just
> launch and close the app? Seems like the same amount of effort (click, close
> window vs. right-click, click menu entry for "Mark as not newly installed").

Perhaps it's the same number of clicks, but it can feel quite significant to
the user. Having to launch a program just to clear the badge feels clunky even
if it takes the same number of steps. It means reaching for a button in a
different place, and possibly waiting a few moments for it to start up if it's
a bigger application. And all that aside, even if the time taken and effort
expended were exactly the same, there is a semantic difference and launching a
program just to immediately close it feels like a waste.

Also, what if you install multiple apps at once and want to remove the badge
from all of them? Having a single option to clear the badges would be less
effort for the user than manually launching and closing each one.

Dismissing a quality-of-life feature for having a seemingly narrow use case
seems a bit shortsighted. Just because you wouldn't use it doesn't mean other
people wouldn't. I can't imagine "Wobbly Windows" is very popular but clearly
someone deemed it worthy to be included.

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