I really like the single bottom panel option on COSMIC.

Our alpha release gets closer by the day. We had 67 alpha 1 issues this morning. The number isn't necessarily indicative of the work because they're varying degrees of effort but it's still helpful.

@carlrichell I look forward to testing this myself :-)
@carlrichell I'm a fan of a left panel. The screen has more real estate horizontally than vertically and a left panel keeps the upper right corner for closing maximized windows when window controls are on the right.
@burdickjp I use that layout sometimes as well. It is nice.
@carlrichell Looking good :) Is there a way to disable the top panel? Or is the current way to do it just to set opacity to 0 and remove all applets from it?
@vancha what are you looking to accomplish?

@vancha @carlrichell I wrote a small tweaks apps that lets you disable the top panel as well, if you’d like a no-panel experience you can do that as well.

https://github.com/edfloreshz/cosmic-tweaks

GitHub - edfloreshz/cosmic-tweaks: A tweaking tool for the COSMIC desktop.

A tweaking tool for the COSMIC desktop. Contribute to edfloreshz/cosmic-tweaks development by creating an account on GitHub.

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@carlrichell Yes! Please make it usable for users who prefer classic DE layout with a task list 
@carlrichell single bottom panel ftw!  
@carlrichell light theme is much more better that older version, looks great.