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
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I intend to make a kde development environment to deal with panel configuration, kiosk, and default behavior. They have cool markets for icons and themes, but I would like to make as much behave like windows 98 or better, and KDE had some features that were better than win98. but then some people will want to be able to make it look like mac or 11 and I can’t stop them. I’d make it so that I can install KDE for someone and select my behavior profile without having to change every single setting. Like turn of compositor and set animations to instant and put the panel on the left with a quicklaunch…
does it work on the Windows OPERATING SYSTEM?