ngraham added a comment.
Well, I don't wanna hasten our demise under the crushing weight of bloat, and I can appreciate your voice of wisdom. :) So I'll hit the pause button and continue the discussion. Now that I think about it, if I step back and examine my motivations for this, it's that I think we should use an Icons-Only Task Manager by default, and IOTMs make sense to pre-populate with apps (as proposed here), because they're basically app launchers. IOTMs (or at least the local equivalent) are now shipped by default in Windows, macOS, ChromeOS, Ubuntu's GNOME flavor, and every mobile OS. The last major OS to ship a Traditional Task Manager was Windows Vista 10 years ago. People are used to IOTMs at this point, and everyone else switched to them years ago because they're better for the common normal-user use cases of launching apps and switching between a small number of single-window apps than the now-increasingly-less-common use case of switching between a large number of windows many of which belong to the same app. People like us who still have that use case can always switch back to a TTM in three clicks. If we use an IOTM by default, we can double the panel thickness and put it on the left screen edge, with the positive side effect of being a touch-friendly launcher and app switcher for the convertible use case without needing to change the UI at all. I keep noticing people (you and I included) naturally gravitating to this panel setup, and I think it makes a lot of sense as a better default for 2020. Maybe it's time to have that conversation instead of pushing half-measures like this patch. REPOSITORY R119 Plasma Desktop BRANCH some-apps-by-default (branched from master) REVISION DETAIL https://phabricator.kde.org/D25773 To: ngraham, #plasma, broulik, #vdg, hein, filipf, ndavis Cc: filipf, plasma-devel, LeGast00n, The-Feren-OS-Dev, jraleigh, zachus, fbampaloukas, GB_2, ragreen, ZrenBot, ngraham, alexeymin, himcesjf, lesliezhai, ali-mohamed, jensreuterberg, abetts, sebas, apol, ahiemstra, mart
