I make heavy use of widgets and I have two task bars, which is something I haven’t seen done before. The task bar on the top shows all applications open anywhere on my PC while the bottom one (which auto hides when windows are present) only shows applications on the current desktop and activity.
Well just doing the best i can with what’s readily available in Kubuntu… if you want a really old school experience, here’s a blast from the past KDE look from an old Arch install back in 2014 :