Cupcake, you could always pin it to the task bar
I hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate the quick launch toolbar. Looks like utter shit, terrible placement imo, and is as useless as a dock is on Windows...Or OS X for that matter (I have a tendency to use Trampoline on OS X, if only I could just disable the dock, rather than hide it)... Yet I love the shortcuts on the Panel in GNOME. KDE, however... well... I don't use KDE often enough (except KDE4, which kinda sucks in general to me. Too resource heavy. I like the ideas behind it, but not the execution)