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As far as I know only via config file in the moment.

.kde/share/config/plasma-appletsrc

There is a section with
plugin=panel

the geometry and location is clear to me. geometry is left,right,width,height and location is a number which specifies the edge of the screen.

Can anyone explain me the formfactor and transform parameters?

I was also looking for a way to move the new panel as I have two monitors and would like the panel on the second one. However, whenever I changed they settings in plasma-appletsrc and restart KDE they are all reset to their (apparent) defaults. Anyone know whats going on?

I can't believe we cant't move panels, resize them, add a button to show the desktop... I'm very disappointed. If someone knows how to do it, please, post it.

You have to edit the file when plasma is not running, or kill plasma afterwards. Else plasma saves its settings and overrides your changes.

That did the trick for me, although the most I'e gotten out of it so far has been to move the taskbar to the other monitor. Good enough for now but there definetly needs to be more customization of the panel.

http://software-libre.rudd-o.com/KDE_4.0…_a_new_panel.3F

It didn't make it to the final release of KDE4.

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Originally posted by antares
..., add a button to show the desktop... I'm very disappointed. If someone knows how to do it, please, post it.

You needn't to add the "show desktop"button. If you press Ctrl+F12, it'll show you

well, back to gnome

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Originally posted by grissiom_lxy

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Originally posted by antares
..., add a button to show the desktop... I'm very disappointed. If someone knows how to do it, please, post it.

You needn't to add the "show desktop"button. If you press Ctrl+F12, it'll show you

Your attitude seems to be way too common these days

"I don't need it so you don't either"

I wish people would realize that other software users do things differently, and what one user finds useless another user finds very useful.

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Originally posted by tekwyzrd

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Originally posted by grissiom_lxy

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Originally posted by antares
..., add a button to show the desktop... I'm very disappointed. If someone knows how to do it, please, post it.

You needn't to add the "show desktop"button. If you press Ctrl+F12, it'll show you

Your attitude seems to be way too common these days

"I don't need it so you don't either"

I wish people would realize that other software users do things differently, and what one user finds useless another user finds very useful.

First of all, I'm *not* a coder, nor a developer. I'm just a lonely user. All the classmates around me are using Windows. So maybe there is some misunderstanding. I'm very sorry for that. I'm not sure what antares exactly mean as you said, but I know my idea solidly. So I just explain my idea below. If anyone disagree or feel misunderstanding, happy to discuss

My idea is if one want to see the "desktop", he/she is going to use some "icon" or "file" in it. In my eyes, all the "icon" and "file" in former desktop are all treated as "applet" in KDE4. So if you press Ctrl+F12, it will show you all the "applet", i.e. "icon" and "file", in the desktop. The only difference is the panel and wallpaper are disappear. But it doesn't matter in *my* eyes. So I make that suggestion. Just as I have said, if anyone disagree or feel misunderstanding, happy to discuss

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Originally posted by grissiom_lxy

First of all, I'm *not* a coder, nor a developer. I'm just a lonely user. All the classmates around me are using Windows. So maybe there is some misunderstanding. I'm very sorry for that. I'm not sure what antares exactly mean as you said, but I know my idea solidly. So I just explain my idea below. If anyone disagree or feel misunderstanding, happy to discuss

My idea is if one want to see the "desktop", he/she is going to use some "icon" or "file" in it. In my eyes, all the "icon" and "file" in former desktop are all treated as "applet" in KDE4. So if you press Ctrl+F12, it will show you all the "applet", i.e. "icon" and "file", in the desktop. The only difference is the panel and wallpaper are disappear. But it doesn't matter in *my* eyes. So I make that suggestion. Just as I have said, if anyone disagree or feel misunderstanding, happy to discuss

I misunderstood your intent. For that I apologize. It seemed like yet another case of, as I said, "I don't need it so you don't either". I follow the progress of a number of projects and it's very common for people to decide that everyone else should do things the way they do them.

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I can't believe we cant't move panels, resize them, add a button to show the desktop... I'm very disappointed. If someone knows how to do it, please, post it.

This is now working fine in 4.1 - I have just done it on a kubuntu 8.10 machine. If you click the golden teardrop at the end of the panel to go in to adjustment mode, you can then drag the configuration panel that appears next to the panel to move to another side of the screen, or adjust the outer edge of the configuraiton panel to adjust the size of the panel.

try the screen edge in panel settings
right click on panel > unlock widgets > panel options > panel settings > press screen edge with left mouse > drag to the side where you want to locate your panel on your desktop