Version: (using KDE 4.0.83) Installed from: Ubuntu Packages OS: Linux There are many bugs on the KDE4 panel, I searched but this does not appear to be a dupe. The current KDE4 panel configuration is not intuitive. These issues should be addressed: 1) It is not clear what needs to be dragged in order to move the panel to the top/sides. I literally stumbled upon it by accident, after giving up and concluding that panels cannot be dragged to other locations. 2) It is not clear what needs to be dragged in order to make the panel taller (or wider, in the case of side panels). Again, this is an option that I stumbled upon my accident. 3) It is not clear how to configure panel hiding. In fact, I have not yet found how to do this and it might not exist yet, however, after my experience with the previous two issues I concluded that maybe this feature does exist. 4) It is not clear how to move objects around to different locations on the panel. Like the previous item, I have not yet found this and it might or might not exist. The current KDE4 panel configuration leads the user to look for hidden places to click and hidden things to drag. This is not the Legend of Zelda and users (especially business users) need the options to be clear and easily accessible. Please consider and alternative, KDE3-style configuration dialog. Thanks.
maybe a bit of text in the configuration should help (drag slider, drag up or down to resize). I too had no idea how the configuration thing that popped up was supposed to be used, I thought it was another panel.
I wish there would be no panel "configuration panel" at all, in fact all the configuration could be done by drag-and-drop direct manipulation, by creating handles dynamically, and by right-click context menus, or click+modifier keys. Sorry, but IMHO the current panel-config is clumsy :-(
Actually, Yves, it is all done by drag and drop. However, the wrong item is being dragged and dropped! The panel itself should be dragged and dropped, not the configuration popup. I agree that the current behaviour is clumsy.
Related report: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163060
All of these issues have been addressed for KDE 4.2 in a similar vein to how bug 163060 was addressed. Moving/resizing the panels got their own specific buttons. Moving applets within the panel was added in KDE 4.1, and autohide has been implemented in KDE 4.2. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 163060 ***