Don't get rid of KDE4 panel... apologies

[skyrmion]

Greetings,

I had successfully rid my desktop of the panel as described in Tombuntu's blog in KDE 4.0.1 (in Fedora 9). Just tried that with HH KDE 4.0.2, crashed plasma till I restored the backup plasma config file (plasma-appletsrc). Just a heads up, or if someone knows a workaround...

I like wicd instead of network manager, and I realized while looking at my system tray that I was making a call to plasma on autostart for the icon. Deleted the autostart entry and tried again. No panel, no plasma crash on startup! My apologies to Tombuntu and KDE4 developers for any confusion.
I like not having the panel. I have a widescreen laptop and value the vertical real estate. I am used to having my projects in front of me and tools and test equipment off to the sides.I could put the panel on the side (now!) but that makes task manager and other widgets in panel next to useless. It seems to me that the KDE4 designers have modularity in mind when looking at the config file, making it easy to use widgets where you choose, the desktop and panel are designated as plugins as are all widgets. Powerful stuff!

[dibl]

Re: Don't get rid of KDE4 panel

Sounds reasonable. If you think about the situation from the developers' perspective, probably the ability to do a clean removal of the panel will be about the last functionality to be implemented and tested -- after all, you need a properly working panel in the first place, before you decide how to remove it.

[Bongo5HH]

Re: Don't get rid of KDE4 panel

Sounds reasonable. If you think about the situation from the developers' perspective, probably the ability to do a clean removal of the panel will be about the last functionality to be implemented and tested -- after all, you need a properly working panel in the first place, before you decide how to remove it.

That could become an interesting conversation. From the dev's point of view you're right, the last thing you would be thinking about is removal of the item. Especially since by your view of the item it's the next best thing! And you're trying to get functionality into it.

From the user's point of view something that might be great later but is a bit lacking now is probably something you don't want sitting on your desktop so being able to remove it might be more of a priority.

lol funny stuff.

Kev