Kicker is the main panel used in K Desktop Environment 3 and earlier. It can be customized by the user. By default, it has the K Menu, a Desktop Access button, a Home

Home directory

A Home directory is a file system directory on a multi-user operating system containing files for a given user of the system. The specifics of the home directory is defined by the operating system involved; for example, Windows systems between 2000 and 2003 keep home directories in a folder...

 button, a Konqueror

Konqueror

Not to be confused with the Conqueror web browser.Konqueror is a web browser and file manager that provides file-viewer functionality for file systems such as local files, files on a remote ftp server and files in a disk image. It is a core part of the KDE desktop environment...

 button, a Kontact

Kontact

KMail supports folders, filtering, viewing HTML mail, and international character sets. It can handle IMAP, IMAP IDLE, dIMAP, POP3, and local mailboxes for incoming mail. It can send mail via SMTP or sendmail...

 button, and a Help button. It also has the Desktop Preview & Pager, the Taskbar, the System Tray, and the Clock.

It is a core part of the KDE desktop, and as such is packaged as part of the kdebase module.

Although ported to Qt4, Kicker had been dropped from KDE4 at the alpha stage and replaced with Plasma Desktop’s panel.

Applets

Kicker can embed various applets into itself. The included applets as of KDE 3.5 are:

• Binary Clock
• Bookmarks Menu
• Character Selector
• Clock
• Color Picker
• Desktop Preview & Pager
• Dictionary
• Eyes
• Fifteen Pieces
• Find
• K Menu
• Keyboard Status Applet
• Klipper
  Klipper
  Klipper is a clipboard manager for the KDE interface. It allows users of Unix-like operating systems running the KDE desktop environment to access a history of X Selections, any item of which can be reselected for pasting. It can also be used to react automatically if a certain text is selected...
  
  
• Konqueror
  Konqueror
  Not to be confused with the Conqueror web browser.Konqueror is a web browser and file manager that provides file-viewer functionality for file systems such as local files, files on a remote ftp server and files in a disk image. It is a core part of the KDE desktop environment...
  
   Profiles
• Lock/Logout Buttons
• Math Expression Evaluator
• Media Control
• Moon Phase
• Network Folders
• News Ticker
• Non-KDE Application Launcher
• Print System
• Public File Server
• Quick File Browser
• Quick Launcher
• Recent Documents
• Run Command
• Runaway Process Catcher
• Settings
• Show Desktop
• Sound Mixer
• Storage Media
• System Guard
• System Menu
• System Monitor
• Taskbar
• Terminal Sessions
• Trash
• Weather Report
• Window List Menu
• Wireless Network Information
• World Wide Watch
• aRts
  ARts
  aRts, which stands for analog Real time synthesizer, is an audio framework that is no longer under development. It is best known for previously being used in KDE to simulate an analog synthesizer....
  
   Control

See also

• Taskbar
  Taskbar
  In computing, a taskbar is a bar displayed on a full edge of a GUI desktop that is used to launch and monitor running applications. Microsoft incorporated a taskbar in Windows 95 and it has been a defining aspect of Microsoft Windows's graphical user interface ever since. Some desktop environments,...
  
  
• Dock (computing)
  Dock (computing)
  The Dock is a prominent feature of the graphical user interface of the Mac OS X operating system. It is used to launch applications and switch between running applications...
  
  
• GNOME Panel