I thought Tint2 will end my battles with panels. And it would, if only had the option 'intellihide' (or 'windows can cover' on kde panel).
I switched to it from Tint2 mainly because of the mentioned option, for I need a 100% of screen in some cases (and I don't like autohide).
It would be nice, if we had a couple of additional options and some polishing of existent ones in the future: wider range of panel's vertical size (below 24px), clock with calendar, menu editor (or conf/xml file for menu), more applets, and maybe a couple of included themes.
And just for the record: when ADeskbar is restarted, notification area doesn't restore all running applets/apps, so they have to be restarted individually in order to appear in the panel again (but usually you don't restart the panel during the session).
Thanks for this great panel - keep making the good stuff