Bug 436064 - Plasma's native panel lacks popular Dock-like features and options
Summary: Plasma's native panel lacks popular Dock-like features and options
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: Panel (show other bugs)
Version: master
Platform: Manjaro Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Reported: 2021-04-22 22:52 UTC by Yannick Bruneau
Modified: 2021-04-22 22:54 UTC (History)
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Description Yannick Bruneau 2021-04-22 22:52:31 UTC
SUMMARY
Plasma's native panel misses Dock-like options and features :
- colored panel with/without transparency (blur)
- floating panel (height/margin from the side of the screen).
- choose indicator type/shape (dot, line, square, circle, cross, triangle, or whatever with a specific image/icon), choose its color and shadow options.
- shape of each corner (squared, rounded, curve scale/degree, edge width ...).
- parabolic zoom effect to panel items, not just the taskbar icons (Kickmenu).
- border width and color (thin, thick, specific value)
- ...

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Open Plasma's native panel settings
2. Compare with Latte-dock settings and features
3. Compare with competitors docks settings

OBSERVED RESULT
The user can customize the panel but he is too limited to compare to competitors panels settings.

EXPECTED RESULT
The user is able to customize plasma's native panel with more settings for its look and feel and behavior.
Main settings would allow to set a panel to look like most popular and famous panels / docks (Windows, macOS, Chrome OS, macOS, Gnome's dash to dock, ...).

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows: 
macOS: 
Linux/KDE Plasma: 5.11 / Plasma 5
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 5.21
KDE Frameworks Version: 
Qt Version: 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
The idea is to allow similar options and features of other docks in Plasma's own panel.
Comment 1 David Edmundson 2021-04-22 22:54:23 UTC
this is out of scope to be a meaningful bug report.

>2. Compare with Latte-dock settings and features

You can use latte-dock