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From what I hear and saw about Gnome, as well as here, the paradigm of 'one-gesture-to-your-app' is losing ground. The panel implemented this; including auto-hide to offer more real estate. With an auto-hide panel, I can one-mouse-gesture pop up the panel and activate my desired application.

Panels are lousy, on the other hand. Tiny, limited, crammed with apps, notification areas limited, etc. That's obvious, and due to the real estate limitations. Both KDE and Gnome try to move away from panels. Fine. But both seem to give up the single-gesture-to-destination concept. So the rest of the world will stay with Windows.
What I mean, and currently do, is having everything on my desktop and then move there, for notification, system monitor, launcher, lancelot, large clock, pager, task-list, you name it. But then I always need the two-gesture thing. If it is Desktop Grid, Dashboard or whatnot, I need to activate to move away from the fullscreen application, and then activate the Desktop or application, and de-activate the view (Desktop or dashboard). Actually, just to see (SEE!) the time, I need to 'Desktop_Grid' - View - 'Desktop(un)Grid'. I can 'Dashboard', click my application, and then 'UnDashboard'. That's minimum one too many.
I'd like to mouse-gesture an edge to see my other desktop with all the indicators (clock, system monitor, network connection, temperature, whathaveyou), and gracefully move back; not as a second move; like forth, back, forth, back. Rather, only as example, one single half-circle across the top edge, my 'main' desktop' shows (or the underlying one), it stays until I've seen it; and the completion of the circle gets me back to where I was.
Next: after the half-circle across the edge, I click whatever, and it comes up. No, it doesn't. I can 'Dashboard', click the calculator, and need another 'Dashboard' to get the bloody Dashboard away. That's exactly not what I desire. 'Click' should deactivate Dashboard, done.

In a nutshell (for those who read until here): Starting an application, switching to an application, changing the desktop, raising the focus to an application on any desktop; all that needs to be possible (if not prescribed) to be accessible with a single gesture, eventually plus click.

I set a screen edge to activate the dashboard. It works tremendously well when I got annoyed with the amount of clicks. How does that work for you?

Moult wrote:I set a screen edge to activate the dashboard. It works tremendously well when I got annoyed with the amount of clicks. How does that work for you?

Exactly. NOT.

Then mouse-move-out brings dashboard. Then mouse-back-in shows for example the clock. Then mouse-move-out and mouse-back-in makes dashboard go away. Exactly two complete gestures. With an auto-hide panel it is exactly one.
And when I click an application in dashboard, it comes up. But dashboard stays. So another of the mouse-move-out followed by mouse-move-in gestures is needed to make dashboard go away.
Likewise with 'Desktop Grid'. I for one wouldn't mind a more sensitive screen action like mouse-move-out shows the grid, and mouse-move-in makes Desktop Grid go away again and land me at the most recent desktop: Half a circle shows the grid, applications on other desktop, clock and sensors and network status on an otherwise empty desktop and simply completing the circle (mouse-move-in) returns me to the last desktop. Except I clicked an application or widget. The latter would probably require some timing threshold, but that'd be the next thing to decide. Like mouse-move-out shows the grid, mouse moves back waits some time for a click, like 750 msec (adjustable), and activates whatever I click as if I was on the desktop itself. If not, the most recent desktop comes back.

to be honest, i didn't get your point at all... to many words...

Ooops, I forgot one thing, on top of the current disease caught by KDE as well:
So 'Desktop Grid' brings all desktops. Nice. Nice? And when I click on an open application, it will zoom on on that desktop and get focus on that application.
Fine? No good! Because when I click on anything else, it will just zoom in on that DESKTOP; but not respect WHAT I click. To be precise: Yes, if I click a widget or application shortcut, I really want it to work. Again, again and again: like (autohide) panel. If I clicked on the desktop, of course, I want zoom in on that desktop. That's fine. But when I click on application launcher 'Acrobat Reader' on that desktop, what I want is Acrobat to start, on that desktop, zoom in on that desktop (or not, to be selected in the preferences), and focus on Acrobat. And the same applies for pager, task-list, or whatnot.

man, what is your status, what is your problem and what is the solution you propose?

I think this is a duplicate of Clicking on blank space on dashboard closes it and a separate idea (interact with plasma widgets in desktop grid mode). The second idea is probably valid, but this definitely seems to be multiple independent ideas.