Martin Kho wrote:
My question had nothing to do with the placement of Kickoff on the panel, but with the Kickoff menu itself. Go to the Applications tab and click any item with sub-items. Then you see to the left the 'blue-back-bar-button'. Drop your mouse to the left edge and you can't press the 'back-button'. In the stable version of KDE - 4.3.1 - there was no space between the left edge and the Kickoff menu. My 'problem' has to do with the latest kde testing - 4.1.96 - version.
That sounds like a 4.2 regression, you should probably report it to https://bugs.kde.org .
Kevin Kofler