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Re: Remove the Taskbar
by Vitaly Shishakov on Sunday 10/Feb/2008, @17:13
No Way! KDE Taskbar rules!

for example, in KDE3 I used to have it in upper-left corner, going down as a simple list, which comes on top when i navigate to upper-left corner, without any preview widows or stuff. having sometimes 20-30 windows open (Matlab and lots of Matlab graphs + KDevelop + 2-3 Konsoles, + 2-3 Konquerors + Kolourpaint + Kontact + Kopete + something else) is my usual desktop. and -- i never use window grouping -- having ALL windwos listed and sorted by applications is very handy and accessible (see attach).

The most admiring feature for me is... rolling MouseWheel over such taskbar -- for example -- while working in Matlab it allows me to navigate numerous open Figures very quickly!

Using manual plasma_appletsrc edit i tried to make something similar in KDE 4.0.1, but Vertical Taskbar looks awfull there -- it's items tend to be 200px high!, and then, after 30th window, they open 2nd column. I dont want to see large application icons in taskbar -- i preffer to see window titles' list instead! Even if there will be no GUI for configuring this, as it was used to be in KDE3 (I use Extended Taskbar there) -- I'd like to have ability to configure it manually in config files!
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    Re: Remove the Taskbar
    by Max on Monday 11/Feb/2008, @09:57
    I like the taskbar, but it's not revolutionary by any means.

    It has been around since before Windows 95 (PC tools, IIRC), and then popularized with Windows 95. So 13 years!!

    Shouldn't we come up with some more useable alternative? There has to be some novel idea out there, that increases productivity, yet preserves screen Real Estate.
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