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Why is turning off a defaulted checkbox such a big deal?
Why is turning a checking box on such a big deal? Everything making sounds is an annoyance and therefore should be opt-in, just like all other kinds of annoyances such as web cookies.
At least you can turn them off!
But the real questions is, can we change them?
Imagine this:
Yes. Even in the current version of Plasma they can be changed easily.
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Annoyances should be off by default.
Why is turning off a defaulted checkbox such a big deal? It’s KDE, surely you would be used to customising settings by now since they make it so easy.
Why is turning a checking box on such a big deal? Everything making sounds is an annoyance and therefore should be opt-in, just like all other kinds of annoyances such as web cookies.
Who decides what’s an annoyance and what’s not?
The people who are annoyed.