Hi, <br><br>I'd like to step in to defend the interests of us KDE users who won't use this feature. I want to make sure that it can be configured to not interfere with my current workflow. My rational is that I've always found this KDE 3 panel feature a little bit annoying, and now the use case it provides (showing and hiding alternate panel configurations) is better supported by Activities in a more general way; so I won't have a need for manual hiding. When I'm low of screen space I've always used auto-hide anyway.<br>
<br>One possibility is just having an option to disable it, and make "disabled" the default setting. Users who remember the 'hide' button from KDE 3 will know to turn it on, and those first introduced to KDE 4 won't find a feature that changes the previous behavior of hotspots like the panel edges and the screen border.<br>
<br>But if the 'hide' buttons can be implemented so that they don't interfere with the current hot spots, I'm in to have them enabled by default. I liked the idea someone proposed to create those buttons as plasmoids so that each user can decide where to place them (either inside the panel or on the desktop). I'm concerned about the buttons taking the screen or panel edges, and/or displacing or overlapping the panel contents. If this is the behavior of this feature, I'd certainly ask to have an option to disable it completely. <br>
<br>Thanks for your attention.<br>