If, like me, you like to keep your most frequently used programs on your desktop for fast easy access,then before long, you will find your desktop so thoroughly covered with icons that you can barely see our wallpaper. Here's a little trick I learned recently which can reduce or eliminate that clutter. In Klikit you can add additional panels like the one which appears, by default, at the bottom of your desktop. Actually you can have one panel on each edge of your screen, top, bottom, left, and right side, but that may be over-doing it a bit. I chose to put my second panel at the top of the screen, and set it to hide automatically, a few seconds after the cursor moves away from the panel. This way I get the added convenience, without sacrificing a lot of screen real estate. To create your new panel, right click on an empty spot in your existing panel. (Just to the left of the Taskbar is a good spot).
Mouse-over Panel Menu > Add New Panel > Panel , as depicted in the above illustration, and click the final
iteration of Panel. In the Configure - KDE Panel control which opens, you can set the size, location, hiding
and other characteristics of your new panel. In the Settings for: gadget at the top of the window, be sure you
select Panel, not Main Panel. The Size gadget at the bottom of the window asjusts the vertical height of the
panel. The various icons in the panel will be resized accordingly.
Once you have set the Position, Length, Size, and Expand as required settings, click on the Hiding icon, in the
left pane, and set the way you would like your new panel to hide when not in use.
In the Raise when the pointer touches the screen's: gadget, you can set which area on the screen will raise
your panel when touched by the mouse pointer. I recommend choosing an area of the screen which you do not
commonly touch during normal us, as constantly having the panel activate by accident can be a nuisance.
Once you have the hiding characteristics set to your liking, click Apply, to save your settings, and OK, to exit.
That's it! Now you can move your desktop icon on to the panel by clicking on them, and holding the left mouse
button down while you drag them onto the panel, then releasing the mouse button. Note: This will copy the icons
to the panel. The originals will still be on your desktop. Once you have all your icons arranged in the new panel,
you can delete the ones on the desktop, by right-clicking them, and selecting Delete. When you are finished,
your new desktop should look something like this:
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