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Re: Reporting 'missing' features
by kollum on Wednesday 05/Mar/2008, @12:34

Note that I'm not the first poster, but let me answer for him ;)

My counter argument here is that I nearly never use the panel, but it always takes 5% of my screen.
On the other hand, I hapen to feel I spend my life scrolling. So should this nearly useless thing that is the panel (thought it is realy usefull sometimes ) not get in my way, I'dd be more than happy.

Anyway, I hope someday, there will be a 'CDE like' 'taskbar' ( wich is the whole windows ) implemented : with the dashboard 'widgets other anything' effect it could be cool.

I actualy use CDE at work on an solaris box, and at my surprise, after a few configurations, I like this desktop a lot, I find it prety effiscient. Plasma could bring a new skin to it, with additional kwin (window management) bonus ^^

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Re: Reporting 'missing' features
by Soap on Wednesday 05/Mar/2008, @12:59

My solution with plasma: No Panel! I've got a taskbar on the desktop accessible with ctrl-F12 if I actually need it, which I rarely do.

This matters on my 800x480 screen.

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Re: Reporting 'missing' features
by Mark Kretschmann on Wednesday 05/Mar/2008, @13:13

Ah, hooray for the new Eee PC with bigger screen :) *want*

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Re: Reporting 'missing' features
by Soap on Wednesday 05/Mar/2008, @22:14

Yeah, if only I'd held out a little longer.

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Re: Reporting 'missing' features
by jos poortvliet on Thursday 06/Mar/2008, @00:48

Indeed, the short batterylife sucks. I thought the new Proc&chipset would enable a fanless design (and longer battery life) but apparently not. They should've used a LED based screen, but I guess that's too expensive.

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Re: Reporting 'missing' features
by Mark Kretschmann on Thursday 06/Mar/2008, @10:48

IIRC I've read that the new screen is LED backlit, but I might be wrong.

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Re: Reporting 'missing' features
by reihal on Thursday 06/Mar/2008, @00:52

9 inch 1024 x 600, as it should be. me want too.

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Re: Reporting 'missing' features
by Tsiolkovsky on Wednesday 05/Mar/2008, @13:03

If I understand correctly it is already possible to completely remove the panel container. Just not through graphical settings, yet. You need to edit the Plasma configuration file for your user. Then with panel gone you can put task manager plasmoid on background and it is hidden by default and you can show it with turning on the Dashboard with pressing Ctrl+F12.

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