The Legacy Launcher allowed you to choose which "tabs" you wanted on the bottom panel. (This feature would greatly enhance the practicality of the Kickoff Launcher.) This allowed direct access to a fully breathable menu, with easy-to-click items. Example (imagine these are "vertical" mouse movements): Favorites ---> click a favorite item Applications ---> browse through and click an application item Places ---> click a bookmark / favorite place History ---> click a recent item And so on. You could choose which tabs you wanted on the bottom panel. To be able to customize the bottom panel for the new Kickoff Launcher would reduce the amount of back-and-forth zigzagging with the mouse cursor. For example, instead of doing this: Menu ---> Places ---> cut across to the opposite side panel ---> History ---> cut back across to the other panel ---> select an item You could do this: Menu ---> History ---> select an item
I found this from 2021: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=442981#c1 What is its status?
New attachment added, demonstrating clean mouse movements with easy targets. No "zigzagging" from panel to panel required. Screenshot taken from: https://store.kde.org/p/1468103/
Created attachment 169780 [details] Mouse movements Legacy Launcher demonstrating cleaner, simpler mouse movements, without requiring "zigzagging" between panels
Ultimately it seems like you're looking for a solution to Bug 442981. I agree that it's very annoying and needs a solution. Unfortunately this isn't it; it's not really feasible to make the bottom tabs customizable with the current infrastructure. I think we should instead put effort into Bug 442981.