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I find it a bit strange that stuff like Daisy dock and even the System Tray fall under the widget category. After all, they just hold other widgets and tasks, just as the panel does.

I would suggest that instead of having an "Add Panel" on right click that allows you to add a panel to one of four sides, that it be replaced with "Add Container." The similar "Add Widget" dialog would appear on the bottom, and allow you to drag and drop, just like widgets, these "containers," whether it be a panel, dock, system tray, or sidebar. I keep seeing proposals for dedicated sidebars, and docks, and so forth, but to keep adding them to the right click menu makes no sense. Consolidating these into a "container" dialog would open up the ability to have more specialized containments for widgets.

The panel doesn't have to be a panel, it can be any widget that identifies itself to plasma as a panel. If there is more than one panel installed the "Add panel" entry becomes a sub-menu listing the panels.

You could basically categorize widgets into three categories: desktops, which include things like the desktop containment and netbook containment, panels like the standard panel and fancy panel, and "everything else", which includes widgets meant to go on the desktop or panel. Since the container and system tray widgets are meant to go on the desktop or panel, they are handled with the rest of the ordinary widgets. The panel, however, does not go inside another widget, nor does the desktop, so they need to be handled another way.

Oh, I was not aware that you could actually create alternative panels! I suppose now I'm wondering why stuff like Daisy dock and the sidebar ideas have not appeared in this menu...

Daisy does not appear because it identifies itself as a widget rather than a panel. You need to take that up with the developer, although fancy tasks does add to the list of available panels. The sidebar does not appear because, as far as I am aware, no one has made it yet.

Does this satisfy the needs the idea?

Yes, I believe so, thank you very much!