Click the right mouse button on any free space in Kicker and choose Add. From appearing submenu you can choose, what you want to add. See in Kicker Basics for more about that.
Yes, you can just click the right mouse button on any empty space in Kicker and then choose Add, Extension and the External Taskbar.
Simply drag it by holding the left mouse button on any empty space in Kicker to any screen border.
Just drag it by holding the left mouse button on the small handles on the left or the top of the extension.
10.5. I want the taskbar to show all applications I'm running, independent on which desktop it is. Is that possible?
Yes, click the right mouse button on the small handle of the taskbar, then choose Preferences and check Show all windows in the appearing dialog.
Just fire up Konqueror, go to your home directory and drag the KDesktop icon to any free space of Kicker, then choose Add as Quick Browser from the appearing menu.
You can change the colors of the panel with the global color module of the Control Center or you can style the panel itself, see in Configuring Background tiles for more about that.
On some Red Hat® systems, the clock always shows the time in GMT. This is a bug in the Red Hat® setup. To solve it, just create this symbolic link: ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo /usr/lib/zoneinfo.
Look for $HOME/.kde/share/apps/kicker/pics/go.png and $HOME/.kde/share/apps/kicker/pics/mini/go.png and replace them. Do not forget to flatten the replacements to one layer, or else you will not see anything. Create the directories if they do not already exist. Then restart Kicker.