ngraham added a comment.

  In D22884#505856 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D22884#505856>, @broulik wrote:
  
  > Note that `KTitleWidget` originally used normal font size for a descriptive 
text. At some point that was then changed to large heading font which prompted 
developers to just (ab)use it as a headline rather than a full description.
  
  
  Probably because using regular-sized text at the top of the window where you 
would expect a heading to be is weird-looking and offends your sense of 
typographic hierarchy. The only way to make it not weird to have a descriptive 
text/subtitle at the top of the window is if directly above it is a real large 
header (which would mirror the header text in the category chooser). Then you'd 
have a standard presentation of "header + subtitle."
  
  But I don't think it makes much sense to show only a subtitle (because it 
would look lost without its header) or only a header (because it's redundant). 
This probably explains why the header region's text has been in a state of flux 
forever. In my experience when some UI thing is just fundamentally wrong, 
designers can't resist poking and prodding it. Once it's finally right, nobody 
wants to touch it anymore again.

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