After a long time, I’ve reinstalled a KDE distribution and I’m very happy with it. But one thing bothers me: I use the grid view to manage my desktops. (I find it more efficient if I can move individual windows without changing the desktop.) My question: Is there any way I can remove the desktop bar from the window overview? I don’t need it there, and it takes up unnecessary space.
Hey! I actually proposed this a while ago: allowing configurable size and an option to disable the Desktop Bar in Overview.
It all works, but the developers more or less rejected adding the feature with a basic option drop-down. They instead want an interactive solution that won’t explicitly introduce extra options.
I do intend to revisit at some point, nobody else seemed interested so it was rather low priority 
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Thanks for your reply. In the meantime, I have found out that there was already a solution. If you had more than one desktop row, the desktop bar disappeared in the overview because the developers assumed that the grid view would be used under these circumstances.
I find this line of thought very logical, but unfortunately it was changed because some people found it incomprehensible: 475077 – Show non-linear virtual desktop arrangements again 
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I was one of those people 
In fact I was the one that submitted the code to have it restored.
Still, the bar’s presence should come down to user preference, bar none. Assuming one workflow or the other and hiding elements based on that is a recipe for confusion.
Edit: I’ve cleaned up and refreshed the open request, it allows resizing and disabling the bar entirely. There doesn’t have to be a fancy “smart” solution here 