"I'm in the process of improving the Kasbar taskbar replacement,
and as there seems to be a fair degree of interest I thought I'd
outline what I've done so far and my plans. My first aim (which I
have nearly achieved) was to ensure that Kasbar had all the
features of the standard taskbar, but I have quite a bit more in
mind..."
"Kasbar was originally written by Mosfet as a kicker applet,
and has always had a pretty cool look. Shortly before the release
of 2.0 support for external applets was removed because the API
sucked, which unfortunately meant that Kasbar would no longer work.
Mathias Elter's recent work adding a panel extension system to
kicker meant that the time was ripe for Kasbar to return, so
over the weekend I ported the code to the new API."
"My first port was just that: a direct port of the original
Kasbar applet code, but once I had it working properly I began to
add some new features. ..."