Windows can Hover Panel behavior is great Especially in VMS with limited screen space

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Windows can hover is a super awesome panel behavior. I had it in Plasma 4 and 5.

It makes a horizontal panel that shows the names of tasks really useful. So many wide monitors don’t have any extra vertical space. So I put my panels on the left so I don’t have to scroll as much. I make them wide enough to read the title of the window. It is superduper useful and discoverable. I can help my clients find what they are looking for easily.

Now for most of my clients I can’t let the windows cover the panel, but for the ones that don’t have mobility issues and need the extra horizontal space, I can set the panel this way.

Now, when I try a distro or the latest KDE in a virtual machine, I am not able to move my mouse to screen edge. But, I am able to move to where the panel is. Also, I really really need the screen space when I am using a VM because I already only have a 1080p monitor. (My normal minimum is 1920x1200)

It could be called: Panel Pops over.
I do not understand the dodge windows option. Not at all.
This feature is really important to me

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Hi - I don’t personally know that much has changed since the last time that the same reporter as the bug you linked to had submitted that as a bug: 486701 – Windows can cover is missing from panels

If something were to have changed, it would presumably have been from some development effort happening related to the topic mentioned in comment #4 here: 484540 – Panel settings have regressed, "windows can cover" is a missing option and is gravely missed.

For what it’s worth - if the primary concern is being able to show an auto-hidden panel when it’s not necessarily easy to “press” the cursor into the screen edge, one thing to keep in mind is that the Application Launcher shortcut (typically Super/Meta) will bring a hidden panel into view along with it.

There are also some folks who have built add-ons including some hotkey toggling features: Show/hide main panel with a hotkey - #14 by luisbocanegra