I could live with this. I like the gnome "workflow" but I hate how restrictive it is. Not to mention that it runs worse on my laptop compared to KDE.
Thanks for the inspiration! I might just try something like this.
Gnome isn't in the Slackware repo, you'd have to compile it. But I like Slackware too much to switch to another distro, and I managed to replicate the Gnome workflow I like in Plasma.