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Re: Remove the Taskbar
by Aldoo on Saturday 09/Feb/2008, @11:24

I almost agree, but some UI elements are best kept always visible, and not only on dashboard. In particular the systray which displays useful notifications and features. The clock also might be best visible.

In the late days of KDE 3, I had no more task bar (well in fact I had a not-so-useful autohidable avant-window-navigator). I choose to have instead a minimalist top bar with the systray, the clock, and the application menu (à la MacOS) and some other less important elements (like the K menu). No wasted space, since that bar had no free pixel and contained only useful stuff.

Well, I like keeping space for things that matter (the currently used application). In KDE4.0, that big unresizable panel hurts me, but well, it will soon become more customizable.

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Re: Remove the Taskbar
by Flavio on Sunday 10/Feb/2008, @08:58

That's exactly what I do myself. We have to admit that Apple got it right.

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Re: Remove the Taskbar
by Luciano on Monday 11/Feb/2008, @01:18

Hey, me too! With my shallow-monitor lapotop, vertical space is a premium, and I found I've never used the taskbar anyway... so it had to go. It is now an autohide panel on the right... I'd like to geet rid of that too. Somehow, the menu panel cannot be the only panel anymore. I think it used to work, but no more in KDE 3.5.

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