Hi All
I put the task panel on the right side of the screen to maximize the amount of vertical screen available. With a wide screen display, there is plenty of horizontal area for viewing. A side benefit of doing this, is that you can have many more windows open before the list collapses, when compared with a task panel along the bottom of the screen.
The problem with KDE4, is that when you increase the width or size of the task panel, using a custom setting, the icons increase in size drastically. The custom size I use is 120, and the icons overlap each other, making the task bar unusable.
The ideal fix would be to have a maximum size setting, that will limit how much the icons will grow. The size of the icons should only be about the size of the icons that are on a normal size panel on the bottom of the screen.
The programmers of this part of the KDE4 code should also consider allowing several icons to reside horizontally on a task panel, that is on the side of a screen. For example, if you put the task bar on the side of the screen in windows XP, the quick launch and applet icons line up horizontally with however many will fit, then they start another row.
Thank you. Looking forward to 4.1
Dave