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[–] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] ace@lemmy.ananace.dev 5 points 1 year ago

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.