Does anyone really use XFCE panel in vertical or deskbar mode?

[pianokeyjoe]

Well lets see. I like the CDE desktop which uses a centered bottom placed desk panel horizontal, I like the old GNOME desktop 1.0 with the nice thick fat 3D GTK horizontal panel at the bottom as well. Oh how I love the right hand side vertical NeXTSTEP,Windowmaker,litestep,OpenStep,Afterstep, tiles panel! Cause I love tiles.. And then there was MX LINUX!! The left hand side vertical panel that lets me know I am using MX Linux! So the takeaway from this is? It does not really matter, just so much you the user like what you got on your desktop. if not? Change it! Linux is lovely that way!

I use the old GNOME 1.0 bottom fat tall 3D dark tiled horizontal panel in my AVL-MXE custom spin. But I use the left hand vertical panel customized big, tiled, 3D dark theme on all my regular MX respins.

[linexer2016]

No need to become antagonistic about it. I like the horizontal panel. And can make up my own mind about it. Please do not flog me.

Sorry you read that into my post RichB, that was never the intention towards you or any user. I just prefer to get the highest form of efficiency through their capabilities from anything and everything I work with. The fishslap was for Microsoft.

My response was meant to be tongue in cheek. I do have difficulty understanding how that very small loss in vertical real estate with a horizontal panel bothers people. But it is their preference so does not matter to me at all. That can be said about many choices users make; wallpaper, icon set, desktop environment, workspace theme, et al.

Agreed Rich but of course whether anyone agrees is quite irrelevant isn't it because we all have our preferences as you have said. My thoughts on horizontal v vertical is that it is somewhat analogous to reading a book with footnotes (the footnotes generally are at the bottom of the page). Again, just my musings on this interesting discussion thread.

[JayM]

Anyone using a 10" 1000x600 netbook appreciates having a vertical/deskbar panel over a horizontal one, believe you me.

[jonnken]

It seems easier to navigate...both the eyes AND the mouse horizontally to the vertical panel on the side.

AND perhaps a "longshot" kicker...they say horizontal eye movement can stimulate our Vagus nerve-which regulates our parasympathetic systems (heart rate,breathing, digestive).

[Durhammer]

I'm quite in favor of the vertical (deskbar actually) mode panel.

Panels, panel displays, and screen real estate are important to lots of people. As a relatively old geezer with hobbled eyesight, I like to have as much screen real estate as possible to allow zooming/enlarging text for readability. That led me to having a 22" Dell monitor situated in portrait mode above my 17" Samsung laptop for reading long-scrolling text (news, tech articles and other content), and the 16:9 ratio of the laptop led me to using the deskbar mode panel. (I'd never used a vertical panel before and had to learn about the "deskbar" mode so the windows buttons text shows up properly!) It also lets me have the analog clock I like situated at the top. The journey to this has required me to open three panel-related issues so far (one due to a short-lived stint with Tint2). All that being said, I'm only a recent convert to the vertical taskbar and am only slowly getting used to where to move my cursor to fiddle with a hidden window. But so far, I like it a lot.

[I do have to say, if I DID add a panel to my portrait mode 22" monitor, it probably would be a horizontal panel situated at the top.]

[bigbenaugust]

I normally do horizontal with auto-hide, but when I wanted an MX VM on this Mac to do actual work from, I appreciated that the MX stock vertical panel didn't conflict with the Mac's Dock or hot corners by default. So I kept it vertical this time.

[fossean]

I always thought the best thing about later versions of Windows was the option to use a vertical panel.

[duane]

I use both but I mostly use the horizontal one in the dining room.
That way I can have the tea time icon in the lower right where it is closer to where I am sitting.
I meant horizontal. Edited.