For all those who don't want to waste screen real estate, there is the option to use a tiny (or small) taskbar. But then, sometimes the icons are really quite small, so it helps if the system increases their size whenever the mousepointer moves over them:

To set things up for this behaviour: right click the panel and select 'Panel Menu' => 'Configure Panel', in the new window that opens select the 'Appearance' entry on the left side, and tick the box: "Enable icon zooming".

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