nope, its conky, with a standard plasma panel
i added own_window_class = ‘conkytop’ to the conky and made kwin put anything in the window class ‘conkytop’ forced always on top, and it goes on top of the panel but not on top of full screen videos etc.
in gtk based desktops you gotta make the panel transparent by editing the theme, then make a conky with a background that mimics a panel
and in both cases carefully place the conky elements so that they dont go the same place as panel elements (clock, menu buttons and so on)
Well… the Deepin Arch experiment went south fast, and ended up being a wack a mole afair. So I went for cutting edge instead of bleeding edge, and installed the Fedora 36 KDE spin on my prime partners laptop.
I can see why people speak highly of Fedora, it is a solid low maintenance distro. It is going to be my recommendation for those who just want to try Linux henceforth. The updates reminds me of Windoze and takes forever, so they should feel right at home.
) Arch
