[kwin] [Bug 452798] Request for simple task bar

[Peter Humphrey]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=452798

Peter Humphrey <peter at prh.myzen.co.uk> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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                 CC|                            |peter at prh.myzen.co.uk
           Assignee|kmymoney-devel at kde.org      |kwin-bugs-null at kde.org
            Version|unspecified                 |5.23.5
          Component|general                     |general
            Product|kmymoney                    |kwin

--- Comment #2 from Peter Humphrey <peter at prh.myzen.co.uk> ---
Hi Jack. No, this has nothing to do with KMyMoney. I couldn't change that at
the time, but I've done so now. I hope I've picked the right component; I was
looking for something like 'desktop'.

I don't want the content of the bar changed in the least - I just want to
control when it unhides itself. I'm sure the auto-hide feature has lots of
fancy logic to anticipate when I'm likely to need to see the bar; my method
would bypass that to leave a simple visible/hidden toggle controlled by where
the mouse pointer is on the screen: show the bar if the pointer is in its
region, hide it otherwise.

Two reasons for this:
1.  As you said, to leave plenty of uncluttered screen space;
2.  I still prefer keyboard to mouse whenever it's possible (there were no mice
in 1972). I can't remember ever starting or resuming a program by clicking an
icon on the task bar; and I don't have icons on my desktop. To me, the bar is
just a nuisance most of the time. It should stay out of sight until I call for
it. That won't be often, provided that a keyboard short-cut still opens the
task manager.

I hope that's clearer now.  :)

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