KDE Desktop on a UHD 4K monitor

[J Leslie Turriff]

On 2021-03-19 14:42:18 Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
> My new desktop machine has been my introduction to 4K screen resolution.
> Fortunately my eyes can handle most everything being smaller, so now I have
> gobs of pixel real estate and after a settling-in period with my old
> 1920x1200-based layout I'm wondering how I can use it better.
>
> My KDE __?__ Bar has always been 100+ pixels vertical along the left edge
> of the screen and it'll stay that way. I like my app windows to be as tall
> as they can.
>
> The largest waste of space though is the Task Manager because it's very
> unlikely it'll be filled.
>
> I use 3 virtual desktops with some windows on All desktops. I'd like to
> separate them, with a spacer or something, from the desktop-specific
> windows. Is anyone doing that? Or is there a way to have two Task Managers
> and put some stuff in one and let the other one catch the rest?
>
> Now for that extra space. I could either put applets on the __?__ Bar, or
> make it shorter and put a window.
>
> How do you folks use 4K of pixels for your KDE Desktop?

	I have (for years) set up my display with only one left and one right panel, because as
you say, I like to use all of my vertical real-estate.  I don't use desktop icons, and
keep only my most-often used application icons on the panels.
	As for the applications themselves, I always move the toolbars to the left or right sides
unless they have text widgets (and I wish developers would put text widgets into separate
toolbars), again to maximize vertical real-estate.

Leslie
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