Background tasks are too prominent

[tintou]

Here is how it looks during all the day:

• Valent is a synchronization tool between my phone and my laptop
• Netcloud client to sync my personal cloud
• The screenshot tool is here too as it's hidden when I'm waiting for it to complete

None of these are thing I want to see often (nor close often) It feel like a lot of distraction for me, maybe that should be less in my way all day long 🙂

[danirabbit]

I'm unsure what to do here. This is where folks wanted background apps to be. I feel like this is working as intended 🤷‍♀️

[xvelasqu]

I agree. This is an unnecessary distraction for me. I'd appreciate a setting under "System Settings" > "Dock & Panel" so we can hide it.

[stsdc]

There are some mockups by Mobrarian:

[wpkelso]

Another idea using a symbolic version of the ghost used for background in settings-applications and not showing any app icons