<table><tr><td style="">anonym added a comment.
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<p>For what it's worth: I opened this ticket and sent the patch, and I am not part of the Reddit community. Before I implemented my own fix I searched around for a solution I encountered a plethora of complaints and patches, with Reddit just being a drop in an ocean:</p>
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<blockquote style="border-left: 3px solid #a7b5bf; color: #464c5c; font-style: italic; margin: 4px 0 12px 0; padding: 4px 12px; background-color: #f8f9fc;"><p>Do we want to make the product more complicated (yes that's the result of a config option) to please some people on Reddit while at the same time we already have a mechanism to achieve the same?</p></blockquote>
<p>What is this "mechanism" you are talking about? I'm intrigued!</p></div></div><br /><div><strong>REVISION DETAIL</strong><div><a href="https://phabricator.kde.org/D14949">https://phabricator.kde.org/D14949</a></div></div><br /><div><strong>To: </strong>anonym, VDG<br /><strong>Cc: </strong>filipf, rooty, graesslin, svenmauch, ngraham, romangg, mart, broulik, plasma-devel, ragreen, Pitel, ZrenBot, lesliezhai, ali-mohamed, jensreuterberg, abetts, sebas, apol<br /></div>