

KDE is almost infinitely configurable… and incidentally always has been, going back as far as I can recall, and I started using KDE on Mandrake Linux in 2000.

It is as simple as left mouse click and hold, then drag and drop to place them. OK: I’m using ‘Icons Only Task Manager’, I have placed the app icons on it, where I want them. I suggest you experiment with the System Settings App, and using the right mouse click option on the Panel to discover widgets for the panel, by using ‘Enter Edit Mode’’ If you are running KDE Plasma, as I see you are, there will be no need for anything like the 3rd party apps you are used to on Windows. What Linux app you advise that does what 7+ Taskbar Tweaker does? I’ve been having issues placing icons how i want! I’ve been googling for a while for an app like 7+ Taskbar Tweaker, that allows us to position icons in the taskbar anywhere we like. It’s all drag & drop, so it’s easy to tweak to your liking. You can also put spacers in between icons and widgets (albeit not between the icons on the task managers) - also for grouping them - and you can adjust the size of the spacers. Next to the above, you can also put icons on the panel itself, as well as launchers, which are mini-containers that you can easily drop icons into for grouping them together. You can play with the task manager settings on account of keeping the pinned icons - referred to as launchers - separate from non-pinned task manager entries or not.

The applications on both varieties of the task manager can be pinned, so that they will always show as launchers - in the event of the task manager that also shows the application name, it’ll only show the icon when the application is not running, and the full name if the application is running. One of the available widgets is a task manager (or “task bar”), but there are two variants of it - an icons-only task manager and a task manager that shows the application name - plus a third alternative, which is a window list in the form of a menu. The panel is a container for widgets and icons.

Well, we won’t know that unless you tell us what you want to do, will we?įirst of all, a task bar and a panel are not the same thing.
