default desktop layout

[Stephan Arts]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér
<morten at technographer.net> wrote:
> Dear all,
> I think vertical panels are a bit tricky to work with, because they
> (particularly the right one) almost always end up too close to the event
> triggers of the application you are using. So if I have to grab the
> scroll bar, close a window or some such, I might end up launching
> something instead. Not good.
> I find that the concept of utilising the corners like Vincent mentioned
> is sound. I have done this myself, putting the menu and the goodbye
> button in the two corners I use:
> http://syntaktisk.dk/grphcs/desktop131008.png
> As you will see, I have a much narrower panel, and I have often
> wondered why the default panel size is so wide (which is also why a
> default installation of KDE looks like some sort of Fisher-Price Childs
> First Easy To Grab Toy to me).
> If there is one enhancement I should suggest (which of course is an
> enhancement to me and quite possibly not the rest of the world) is
> integrating the features of datetime/orage clock display. I really need
> to be able to see the date, and I have been wondering why this has to
> be an external plugin rather than built in.

This is build-in when you use the development version.

You only need to supply the 'custom' format.

-
Stephan