Give Plasma a little bit more personality
I've seen a surprising number of positive user impressions and media coverage over the new Shake Cursor effect which has no upper size limit. People seem to think it's hilarious. I know my kids love it. Like, they really love it. It's like "attract people to Plasma" level of love.
It got me thinking: maybe we could use this as the start of a little intentional personality injection into Plasma. Nothing groundbreaking, just some quirky and noticeable characteristics to put a smile on people's faces and make it clear to bystanders that you're using Plasma. So it would be good for branding, too. We've already got the cube, but I think we could do some more.
Some ideas:
- Turn on Wobbly Windows by default, at a low but still noticeable level of wobbliness (people freaking love Wobbly Windows).
- Use Magic Lamp as the default window minimize effect (any US patent Apple may have had on this has since expired, since they last for 20 years and the Dock was debuted in 2000).
- Upstream the adorable CatWalk widget and put it on the Panel or the desktop by default, plus some UX polishing so people know what they're looking at.
We all survived the Very Serious 2010s; I feel like the time is ripe to return a bit of fun to our computing.