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I know I can but the vertical bars are not first class citizens was my point

FeepingCreature 3y ago
What's missing in KDE? Far as I can tell, it works exactly as it did in Windows 95. Unlock taskbar, grab taskbar, move to side of the screen.
- beebeepka 3y ago
  Did I not just confirm that KDE and XFCE have vertical taskbars? Of course they do. XFCE is just too old school for me. I have launch icons and launched items. Clumsy and it wasting space. Easy to screw things up while managing launchers UI items/placeholders. These problems are not vertical bar specific. KDE? I only speak for myself here - it is not missing anything but simplicity. Too much stuff to configure and I get lost, then frustrated. I think I liked it a bit more in the early 2000s.
  - goosedragons 3y ago
    So KDE which lets you do what you want out of the box (vertical taskbar) with one setting change is not good for vertical taskbars but GNOME that doesn't have that baked in at all and requires a 3rd party extension to that is a better choice? Oh and you'll still have the horizontal activity bar on GNOME too.
  - FeepingCreature 3y ago
    > KDE? I only speak for myself here - it is not missing anything but simplicity. Too much stuff to configure and I get lost, then frustrated. That's a fine reason to dislike KDE. I'm just saying, the process to configure a vertical tab bar specifically, is exactly as complicated, step for step, as it was in Windows 95. - Unlock tab bar - Drag tab bar to the edge - Lock tab bar I'm asking what's missing to make that a "first class" feature.
  - lproven 3y ago
    > I have launch icons and launched items. Then install Docklike Taskbar: https://docs.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-docklike-plugin/start https://docs.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-docklike-plugin/st... https://github.com/nsz32/docklike-plugin https://github.com/nsz32/docklike-plugin Formerly Dockbar-X, I believe. https://github.com/M7S/dockbarx https://github.com/M7S/dockbarx

What's missing in KDE? Far as I can tell, it works exactly as it did in Windows 95. Unlock taskbar, grab taskbar, move to side of the screen.

beebeepka 3y ago
Did I not just confirm that KDE and XFCE have vertical taskbars? Of course they do. XFCE is just too old school for me. I have launch icons and launched items. Clumsy and it wasting space. Easy to screw things up while managing launchers UI items/placeholders. These problems are not vertical bar specific. KDE? I only speak for myself here - it is not missing anything but simplicity. Too much stuff to configure and I get lost, then frustrated. I think I liked it a bit more in the early 2000s.
- goosedragons 3y ago
  So KDE which lets you do what you want out of the box (vertical taskbar) with one setting change is not good for vertical taskbars but GNOME that doesn't have that baked in at all and requires a 3rd party extension to that is a better choice? Oh and you'll still have the horizontal activity bar on GNOME too.
- FeepingCreature 3y ago
  > KDE? I only speak for myself here - it is not missing anything but simplicity. Too much stuff to configure and I get lost, then frustrated. That's a fine reason to dislike KDE. I'm just saying, the process to configure a vertical tab bar specifically, is exactly as complicated, step for step, as it was in Windows 95. - Unlock tab bar - Drag tab bar to the edge - Lock tab bar I'm asking what's missing to make that a "first class" feature.
- lproven 3y ago
  > I have launch icons and launched items. Then install Docklike Taskbar: https://docs.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-docklike-plugin/start https://docs.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-docklike-plugin/st... https://github.com/nsz32/docklike-plugin https://github.com/nsz32/docklike-plugin Formerly Dockbar-X, I believe. https://github.com/M7S/dockbarx https://github.com/M7S/dockbarx