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Nice ! Hopefully KDE will have a true multi-monitor support one day :)

Could you elaborate? I've been using it with multiple monitors for over a decade, and I don't know what I should be missing.

Support for synced panels on multiple monitors is still not there. It was present on Windows 17 years ago.

Even duplicating a panel on multiple monitors is not possible, at least for me this is basic multi monitor functionality.

Configure your panels as you like, change one monitor and the panels are gone. There's an issue open since 2021 about this problem : https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=446654

I've been using Windows for more than 17 years and I have no clue what you're talking about; the term “panel” is not an established term in Windows’ desktop environment.

It is in KDE. KDE panel -> Windows Taskbar.

I wrongly applied KDE terminology when talking about Windows.

That's not a "problem",the bug report says it's a feature you want to be implemented.

I guess you could replicate your panel in the other monitor "by hand", or just duplicating the relevant entries and setting them up for the other monitor at plasmarc.

At least to me it's a major issue, and I'm not the only one who thinks this. As I said before Microsoft implemented it 17 years ago.

This works only temporarily, when connecting another monitor then the settings are not propagated.

I found this PR [1] yesterday which should implement a copy function for panels. But it's anyone's guess whether we'll get this functionality in Plasma or a QT6 port of Latte dock [2]

[1] https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_reque...

[2] https://invent.kde.org/plasma/latte-dock/-/tree/work/plasma6...

I see. Not something I'm reliant on, but I can definitely see how it's a problem if your workflow depends upon panels and you often change monitors.

Odd, the fact that I couldn't have separate "panels" in Windows seemed like the bug/missing feature to me :).

Did you try plugging the monitors in?

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