ngraham added a comment.
Since I'm not feeling a lot of enthusiasm for this patch, I've submitted an alternative that fully implements the proposal in T12441 <https://phabricator.kde.org/T12441> with no design compromises: D29501: Use left-aligned thickened panel with IOTM populated with some apps by default <https://phabricator.kde.org/D29501> REPOSITORY R119 Plasma Desktop REVISION DETAIL https://phabricator.kde.org/D27845 To: ngraham, #vdg, #plasma Cc: mart, filipf, kmaterka, gvgeo, davidedmundson, ndavis, niccolove, The-Feren-OS-Dev, plasma-devel, Orage, LeGast00n, cblack, jraleigh, zachus, fbampaloukas, ragreen, ZrenBot, ngraham, himcesjf, lesliezhai, ali-mohamed, jensreuterberg, abetts, sebas, apol, ahiemstra