[Rejected] Plasma 6 proposal: center task manager widget by default
Advantages:
- Usability: The less the items are at the screen edges, the easier they are to see and reach with the mouse. I've been daily-driving the centered task manager for a long time and whenever I get to a setup with them in the corner I find it a bit of an annoyance, especially on large screens.
- Visuals: This is of course highly subjective, but
- I find that the symmetry makes the panel appear more visually balanced,
- and all modern OSes which have task bars (Mac OS, Windows, Android L) do this so in that regard our current style is somewhat reminiscent of old Windows/Gnome 2 desktops.
Disadvantages:
- Especially with Windows now apparently also floating their panel in addition to centering the task manager, maybe we don't want to be too similar looking to other OSes.
I would suggest (as seen in the screenshot) to keep the application launcher and pager widgets on the left, to make it visually balanced, and set our own style slightly apart from Windows 11.
Before we do this we should fix https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=472859 and https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424055 and disable filling free space on panel in the task manager widget first.
@teams/vdg CC @niccolove who IIRC wanted this too
Edited by Natalie Clarius