Manual Hiding of Plasma Panel (desktop shell)

[Marco Martin]

On Friday 05 March 2010, Emdek wrote:
> 2010/3/5 Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org>:
> > On March 5, 2010, Emdek wrote:
> >> In comments to that bug I've written how it could work:
> >> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158556#c33
> > 
> > a plasmoid is the wrong approach. this is about views, not the scene, and
> > it should not require special set up by the user. not to mention a 'hide
> > button on my desktop' is a bit nonsensical and a hide button in the
> > middle of a panel isn't a compelling use case.
> 
> But why not?
> DBus call for toggling panel visibility would be nice addition anyway.
> Then there could be applet for people who want different (and more
> advanced) approach and current  implementation "built in".
> Isn't it good settlement? ;-)

no, a plasmoid has exactly nothing to do with any panel behaviour whatsoever

Cheers, 
Marco Martin