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The fact you love the functionality crammed into your kicker doesn't mean all people do. Most don't need that many applications. Personally, I don't use the Kmenu more than once a month, yet I only have 5 quickstart icons on my kicker, and Konqi configured to my WWW button on my keyboard. I use alt-F2 for the rest. Your setup would be less efficient for me, as the buttons are smaller, thus harder to target.

So, for who should we configure kicker? for you, or for me? That's the point here. You might need and want much stuff, and find it efficient. For others, it's a visual mess, slowing down their work. Not helping at all. And it happens to be YOU who can easily change your setup, so we optimise more for people not as advanced as you are. Sure, we think a lot about how to make things more discoverable, but when it comes to a tradeoff between even more buttons in the interface, or hiding the stuff in the menu's - we often go for the latter.

You know the 80/20 rule? In this case, I'd say for 80% of the things you do, you only need 20% of the interface. So we optimise that 20%. If you would optimise for the other 80% you rarely use, you'd make that more important 20% harder to use!

I guess you're a programmer. So your brain is better at identifying complex patterns and at thinking in concepts. Most people aren't programmers, so even though it seems unlikely to YOU, they would be seriously hampered by your interface. And not only initially. You spend a lot of time behind your computer. Much more than others. Most ppl wouldn't ever get a chance to get comfortable with such a setup...

My point is: You think your interface would benefit others. It won't. Which is why you didn't see many screenshots with such a configuration...