This is a truly cool widget, and I did miss the ability to do that easily when leaving my computer. So +1 for this suggestion as well.

Great! So what are the next steps for these tasks? They're all basically packaging tweaks; do we get the Kubuntu packagers involved?

I will add comments to your email. I wanted to check out all the links before doing so.

Thanks again Nate!

No problem!

I don't mind this in theory..... I think.

IIRC, needs either us to supply a modified default plasma-applets-something-something-rc, or a customs js to set up panel layout on plasma 1st initialisation. Will have to have a play in a clean VM.

This would be great for Windows to Kubuntu switchers. I don't use show desktop at all but I do know a lot of people who like it.

One thing to consider is that we might also want to make the Panel locked by default, which hides the hamburger menu that otherwise appears on the far right. That way, the actual farthest-right item would be the Show Desktop button and it would be perfectly Fitts'-law-compliant. :)

May be just easiest for Kubuntu to have it's own custom panel layout template. That could then be selected in our default setting, or by a user, without having to modify the plasma default with a script.

i.e. a layout that would appear as an option here:

A Kubuntu default panel layout may include kicker instead of kickoff (with custom settings), the showdeskop widget etc.

A custom Kubuntu look-and-feel could then load that by default, instead of the default plasma one. Added benefit being that a user could easily switch or revert to the Plasma default if they wish.

Makes sense; then we could more easily change things ourselves in the future.

Done in https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kubuntu-settings/1:18.04ubuntu6

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