Manual Hiding of Plasma Panel (desktop shell)

[Emdek]

2010/3/5 Marco Martin <notmart at gmail.com>:
> 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

But having DBus call for that purpose isn't something wrong, I think.
And how it can be used is different story.