brent it's has nice look but too busy. I don't do redundancies anymore.

There's no task manager. I got rid of it because with the Latte dock (not Plank), it was quite redundant. You may be confusing the Workspace Switcher applet in the upper panel with the task manager. That applet is definitely not redundant, as it does a different job than the dock does. The dock launches applications, the Workspace Switcher decides where they should be launched. Apparently my explanation of that below the image fell short.

      WetGeek more likely my brain fell short. I knew you said workplace switcher but it still walks like and talks like pinned icons. still very busy.
      but I see where the old 1,2,3,4 on the taskbar evolvled into that

        WetGeek good luck. I've always tried to like Plank, Latte, or Cairo, but they never stick around. Visually, I think it's interesting and creates a nice desktop view. In practice, I think the dock just gets in my way and I end up turning it off. I much prefer tiling and workspaces.

            Brucehankins I think the dock just gets in my way and I end up turning it off.

            I guess I haven't reached that point yet. The Latte dock hides and reappears very intelligently, and has never gotten in my way at all. In fact, I'm beginning to like it, the more I use it. I think KDE did their usual excellent job with it.

            But I am having a harder time than I expected getting used to the bottom panel on the top. That still just seems wrong to me. If I'm gonna have a dock, though, that's where it will have to stay.

                Brucehankins . Visually, I think it's interesting and creates a nice desktop view. In practice, I think the dock just gets in my way and I end up turning it off. I much prefer tiling and workspaces.

                having both is overkill and I lean the other way, preferring the plank. in fact I made 'em smaller once and scooted them vertically right (tubular man) and I liked it. but at the very end of the day, as you said, its about real estate.

                WetGeek But I am having a harder time than I expected getting used to the bottom panel on the top.

                the top panel is my normal. it's funny whay we consider normal. trying someting with a bottom panel gives me heebyjeebies🙂

                      Staudey

                      Well i did use windows since version 3.11.
                      But honestly i don`t miss it a second.

                        8 days later

                        Hello Guys, long time since I posted here!
                        Well, been trying some other iconset + themes + cursors on my setup, here is a few screenshot of it



                        Pop Icon + Bibata cursor + Flat remix blue dark




                        Paper Icon + Bibata cursor + Flat remix blue dark

                        Bonus:


                        Resources:
                        Flat Remix GTK Theme: https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1013030
                        Pop Icons: https://github.com/pop-os/icon-theme
                        Paper icon: sudo eopkg it paper-icon-theme (available in repo)
                        Bibata cursor: sudo eopkg it bibata-cursors (available in repo)

                        How to get Pop Icon theme:

                        git clone https://github.com/pop-os/icon-theme pop-icon-theme
cd pop-icon-theme
meson build
sudo ninja -C "build" install

                        All tested and working correct in Solus Gnome, not yet tested in Budgie but should work, if another distro please refer to your official docs as stuffs like getting Pop Icon theme to work may change or work not as expect at first try.

                        8 days later

                        brent the top panel is my normal.

                        I suspected the problem might be changing from bottom panel to top panel or vice-versa when I change from one machine to another. That can get maddening -- always moving the mouse pointer to something that isn't there half the time.

                        So, after I wrote that reply, I changed my workstation to match the way my laptop is set up. Since I'm using one of those two about 99% of the time, I've gotten much more accustomed to where the menu, and other panel features are, and now I instinctively move the mouse pointer to the right place to begin with.

                        That's way less stressful than having just one machine set up that way, as I did I did earlier. It seems I can get used to a top panel a lot easier than I would have expected.

                            WetGeek It seems I can get used to a top panel a lot easier than I would have expected.

                            you can get used to almost anything (but Gnome😉). in endeavour I've left budgie on the bottom. solus at the top--it's just like you say: muscle memory/feels right--all birds of a feather....but also like you said, once instinct takes over it's harder to go from version to version. there's benefit to some uniformity I think.

                              diagnostics0 I really like that.

                              Of course, I'm one of those users who only sees the desktop just long enough after boot to open the first app; But this sure is pretty.