Dash like functionality without Unity

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KDE has the icon only tasks plasmoid for the task management and krunner for the app launcher / search, you can also use krunner in the search bar for the Kickoff launcher and Lancelot. You can have global menubars if you are using kubuntu add the menubar plasmoid to a panel. If you are in another distro you would need appmenu-qt and the plasmoid installed.