In computing , a taskbar is a bar displayed on a full edge of a GUI desktop that is used to launch and monitor running applications. Microsoft incorporated a taskbar in Windows 95 and it has been a defining ... and old versions of GNOME , include a more configurable taskbar. Other operating systems ... or a Dock computing dock . Microsoft Windows The default settings for the taskbar in Microsoft Windows ... Launch bar , taskbar buttons , and notification area . The Quick Launch toolbar was added with the Internet ... the Quick Launch feature in favor of pinning applications to the taskbar itself. The taskbar was originally ... title Why do some people call the taskbar the tray ? last Chen first Raymond authorlink Raymond Chen ... of Windows XP, Microsoft changed the behavior of the taskbar to take advantage of Fitts ... User Interface Blog publisher Microsoft ref Taskbar elements The Start menu , which is accessed by a button on the taskbar, contains commands that can access programs, documents, and settings. The Quick ... off by default in Windows XP and Windows 7 . The Windows shell places a taskbar button on the taskbar ... Interface applications have a single taskbar button for each open window, although modal window ... to minimize foreground windows by clicking their button on the taskbar. Windows 2000 introduced balloon notifications. Windows Me added an option to disable moving or resizing the taskbar. Windows XP introduced taskbar grouping , which can group the taskbar buttons of several windows from the same ... clicked. This keeps the taskbar from being overcrowded when many windows are open at once. Windows Vista ... shortcut. Jump lists appear when the user right clicks on an icon in the taskbar or drags the icon ... list. Windows 7 introduced the ability to pin applications to the taskbar so that buttons for launching ... to the taskbar however, running programs appeared as a separate button. Windows 7 removed Features removed from Windows 7 Taskbar several classic taskbar features . Deskbands are minimized functional ... more details
Deskbar may refer to A software user interface for Google Desktop embedded in the taskbar that mainly consists of a Google search textfield Deskbar, a taskbar equivalent for BeOS currently provided by the OpenTracker project Haiku Deskbar Deskbar , a fork of the BeOS Deskbar for the Haiku operating system Haiku operating system . DeskBar Win98 DeskBar , a hidden feature in Windows 98. Deskbar, an applet for the GNOME desktop environment. disambig ... more details
primary sources date June 2008 Jumplist was a term used in the early years of the world wide web to describe a collection of Hyperlink links , which were individually referred to as jumps. The Jumplist database driven web service was developed by i us Corp. and launched in 1998 at jumplist.com ref http www.jumplist.com ref . It provided a highly customizable method for users to create categorized collections of links, which they could access privately or display on their sites. The Windows 7 taskbar introduced a new feature called Jump Lists increasingly referred to as jumplists which can be invoked by right clicking on a taskbar icon ref http windows.microsoft.com en us windows7 products features jump lists ref . For further information, consult the features new to Windows 7 article. References Reflist Category History of the Internet ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 GroupBar is an experimental enhancement of the traditional Microsoft Windows taskbar . It provides a vertical bar which you can put buttons tiles to programs on. The tiles can be dragged around and grouped together into groups. You can launch all the programs in a group at once. ref http research.microsoft.com en us downloads 8bd3a415 2628 48e9 8305 f54bc5704d2f default.aspx ref External links http research.microsoft.com en us downloads 8bd3a415 2628 48e9 8305 f54bc5704d2f default.aspx GroupBar Notes reflist Category Graphical user interface elements Windows stub ... more details
image Taskbar SharpEnviro v8.png 800px Possible setup of a SharpBar, which is very similar to the taskbar in Windows 7 . Features such as pinning applications to the taskbar are also supported. The visual ... provided by SharpCore. This means that certain functions such as Taskbar , System Notification ... toolbars which are similar to the taskbar . Application Bars pinning applications to the taskbar ... more details
Orphan date May 2010 notability date January 2012 Infobox software name Gimmie logo Image Gimmie icon.png 100px screenshot Image Gimmie.png 300px caption Gimmie running on Debian developer Alex Graveley latest preview version 0.2.8 Now defunct latest preview date 30 October 2007 operating system Linux , Unix like and embedded systems genre taskbar license GNU Lesser General Public License LGPL website http www.beatniksoftware.com gimmie Main Page Gimmie Gimmie is a relatively new taskbar and desktop organizer for Linux . It organizes applications, contacts, documents, and several common tasks. Gimmie can be run either as a stand alone application or added as a GNOME Panel applet. Gimmie is not actively maintained anymore. Its successor is called Mayanna . Appearance The panel is divided into four sections, applications, documents, people, and Linux. Applications shows running programs and shortcuts to other programs. Documents shows currently and recently used documents as well as bookmarked folders. People shows Pidgin software Pidgin contacts and their status. Linux shows the workspace switcher, clock, and notification panel. See also Portal Free software GNOME Panel GNOME External links http www.beatniksoftware.com gimmie Main Page Gimmie Homepage http www.linux.com article.pl?sid 06 07 11 1614207 Gimmie a new panel prototype Category Application launchers ... more details
notability date October 2011 cleanup date July 2011 Infobox software name tint2 screenshot caption developer Thierry Lorthiois, Andreas Fink, Euan Freeman, Christian Ruppert released May 2008 latest release version 0.11 latest release date Start date and age 2010 06 26 df yes operating system Cross platform programming language C programming language C genre Taskbar license Free software GNU General Public License GPLv2 website URL http code.google.com p tint2 Portal Free software tint2 is a Freedesktop compliant taskbar that aims to be lightweight and unintrusive. ref http code.google.com p tint2 tint2 homepage ref tint2 s code is based on http code.google.com p ttm tint task manager . Some of tint2 s features include a system tray , a clock, and a battery monitor. Its lightweight design makes it suitable for use with window manager s such as Openbox , and it is included as part of the default desktop on CrunchBang Linux . tint2 ranks 9374 in the http popcon.debian.org Debian Popularity contest . ref http qa.debian.org popcon.php?package tint2 Popularity Contest Statistics ref References Reflist External links http code.google.com p tint2 Category Free software software stub ... more details
, and Windows Sidebar gadget configuration. Taskbar main Taskbar Microsoft Windows The taskbar is divided ... Bin , as well as shortcuts, which were now implemented as files. The taskbar was introduced, with an area ... to minimize windows by clicking their button on the taskbar, HTML based folder customization, single ... 2000 The 2000s Taskbar and Start Menu Improvements Image Windows XP Luna.png thumb Luna in Windows ... of most frequently used applications on the left. It also grouped taskbar buttons from the same program if the taskbar got too crowded, and hid notification icons if they had not been used for a while ... . In the early days of the Longhorn project, an experimental sidebar, with plugins similar to taskbar ... a searchable Start menu and live taskbar previews. It also introduced a redesigned Alt Tab switcher, also with live previews. Windows 7 added pinned shortcuts and jump lists to the taskbar, and automatically ... more details
Unreferenced date July 2008 Not to be confused with Terminal pager . Image Virtual Desktop Switcher.png thumb right 230px The pager from Ubuntu Linux s GNOME desktop, showing four virtual desktops. The pager is aligned horizontally here, but it can be changed to a vertical or grid configuration. Image fvwmpager.png thumb right 230px FVWM s pager is implemented as a separate floating window. A pager is a graphical user interface feature provided by some desktop environment s, mostly on the Unix and Linux platforms. It takes the form of an onscreen window or a gadget in the taskbar or panel computer software panel displaying the user s virtual desktop and providing a way to switch among desktop areas or navigate the workspace. Most pagers depict thumbnail outlines of windows assigned to each desktop and can switch or move windows from mouse gestures or scroll wheel . Window managers Category Graphical user interface elements ... more details
Unreferenced auto yes date December 2009 Kicker is the main panel used in K Desktop Environment 3 and earlier. It can be customized by the user. By default, it has the K Menu, a Desktop Access button, a Home directory Home button, a Konqueror button, a Kontact button, and a Help button. It also has the Desktop Preview & Pager, the Taskbar, the System Tray, and the Clock. It is a core part of the KDE desktop, and as such is packaged as part of the kdebase module. Although ported to Qt4, Kicker had been dropped from KDE4 at the alpha stage and replaced with Plasma Desktop Plasma Desktop s panel . Image Kde kicker customized .png thumb center 800px Customized Kicker on KDE 3.5.4 Image Kicker 3.5.8.png center thumb 800px More standard Kicker Image Kicker mod.png center thumb 800px A highly modified Kicker that resembles Plasma KDE Plasma Applets Image KDE Kicker config screenshot.png thumb 200px Various aspects of the KDE 3 panel could be configured, such as its arrangement on the user s desktop. Please do not change the case or spelling of any of these words. In KDE, many things intentionally have incorrect spelling. Kicker can embed various applets into itself. The included applets as of KDE 3.5 are Binary Clock Bookmarks Menu Character Selector Clock Color Picker Desktop Preview & Pager Dictionary Eyes Fifteen Pieces Find K Menu Keyboard Status Applet Klipper Konqueror Profiles Lock Logout Buttons Math Expression Evaluator Media Control Moon Phase Network Folders News Ticker Non KDE Application Launcher Print System Public File Server Quick File Browser Quick Launcher Recent Documents Run Command Runaway Process Catcher Settings Show Desktop Sound Mixer Storage Media System Guard System Menu System Monitor Taskbar Terminal Sessions Trash Weather Report Window List Menu Wireless Network Information World Wide Watch aRts Control See also Portal Free software Taskbar Dock computing GNOME Panel KDE stub KDE DEFAULTSORT Kicker Kde Category KDE software Category Applicatio ... more details
performing functions similar to the quick launch feature found in the Microsoft Windows taskbar. In GNOME ... altogether, to interact with GNOME panel similarly to the MS taskbar. See also Portal Free software ... more details
Infobox software name FVWM95 logo screenshot Image Fvwm95.png 200px FVWM95 caption Screenshot of FVWM95 author developer Luis Hector Peraza Gonzalez released latest release version 2.0.43f latest release date May 3, 2003 latest preview version latest preview date programming language operating system platform language status genre Window manager license GNU General Public License website http fvwm95.sourceforge.net fvwm95.sourceforge.net FVWM95 is a window manager for the X Window System based on the popular FVWM 2 window manager. It is similar to the original FVWM, but is designed to closely resemble the look of Windows 95 . FVWM95 was for a while a rather popular window manager for example, Red Hat Linux 5.0 used it as the default. It is no longer as popular nor is it well maintained , but still in use. Similar window managers include QVWM , IceWM and JWM . Features Windows 95 like appearance. Taskbar for quick window switching. Virtual desktop support. Most features from FVWM 2 may not include absolute latest bleeding edge capabilities . See also Portal Free software Comparison of X window managers External links http fvwm95.sourceforge.net Official website X desktop environments and window managers Window Managers FOSS DEFAULTSORT Fvwm95 Categories Category Free X window managers Category MS Windows like desktops Interlang de FVWM95 es FVWM95 it FVWM95 ja FVWM95 pt FVWM95 ... more details
About the user interface widget the GNOME taskbar gnome panel Unreferenced date September 2009 In graphical computer software a panel is A GUI widget widget commonly packaged as part of a Widget toolkit for a graphical user interface . See toolbar and dialog box A folder in some graphical operating system User interface interface s that provide tools for configuring the system and the software driver driver s. See control panel . Panels in widget toolkits Panels in widget toolkit s often have no specific graphic characteristics, but are mainly used to group children Widget computing widgets together. They allow to have a better control on the layout of the widgets. For example, in this XUL definition, two horizontal hbox panels are enclosed in a vertical vbox panel, alongside with two buttons. This allows to be sure that the label and the textboxes for the Login and the Password fields are correctly aligned. pre vbox hbox label control login value Login textbox id login hbox hbox label control pass value Password textbox id pass hbox button id ok label OK button id cancel label Cancel vbox pre Image Boxes ex2.jpg XUL Example See also Layout manager GUI widgets Category GUI widgets GUI stub ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Infobox Software name DVD Play logo screenshot caption developer Compaq latest release version latest release date operating system Microsoft Windows genre DVD player on computer license website DVD Play is a Digital Video Disc player that comes with most HP and Compaq computers. ref name dvdp DVD Player ref Controls A taskbar appears at the bottom of the movie to help with controlling the movie. There are several tasks that can be done. Some of them are rewinding, fast forwarding, pausing the movie, playing resuming the DVD, stopping the DVD, chapter selection, time displays, volume control, muting, battery charging, a help menu, ejecting the DVD, and information plus more settings. ref name dvdp Other Features There are many features in DVD play. Some of these include the Screen Ratio, which allows users to indicate if they have a standard or widescreen display, Color Profile, which allows changing the color scheme of displays, and subtitle, which selects the default subtitle language. ref name dvdp Other options include DVD Angle, which allows viewing the DVD from a different angle if necessary, audio language, which selects the default language for the movie s audio and sound, speaker environment, which allows selection of number of speakers for playback, and output mode, which determines the special process used on the sound signal. ref name dvdp References reflist Category Windows only software Category 2005 software ... more details
Multiple issues orphan January 2011 refimprove February 2011 Virtual Desktop Extender is a proven technology to extend a Remote desktop software remote desktop with local applications. The technology merges local applications seamlessly into a remote desktop, hosted with Citrix XenApp , Citrix XenDesktop , Microsoft Remote Desktop Services , VMware View . The local applications are merged in the remote desktop, and remote taskbar . Virtual Desktop Extender technology will automatically populate the local applications into the remote start menu . The end user can simply select an Software application application and the Virtual Desktop Extender technology will launch the local application and present the local application seamless in the remote desktop. The local applications are running locally and use local resources. Virtual Desktop Exender technology is also referred to as subscribed applications , and reverse seamless windows . History Virtual Desktop Extender technology was introduced by http www.ressoftware.com RES Software under the name RES Subscriber . Citrix Systems Citrix has started an initiative called Project Alice to demonstrate reverse seamless windows with Citrix XenApp. References http simonbramfitt.com 2010 10 res software virtual desktop extender.html Virtual Desktop Extender by analyst Simon Bramfitt http www.brianmadden.com blogs brianmadden archive 2008 04 22 citrix project alice reverse seamless windows.aspx Project Alice by analyst Brian Madden Category Remote desktop ... more details
notability date September 2011 Infobox software logo screenshot Image AfterStep.png 260px caption Screenshot of an AfterStep desktop. name AfterStep developer latest release version 2.2.11 latest release date release date and age 2011 01 15 programming language C programming language C operating system Unix like genre Window manager license GNU General Public License website http www.afterstep.org www.afterstep.org AfterStep is a stacking window manager for the X Window System . The goal of AfterStep s development is to provide for flexibility of desktop configuration, improved aesthetics and efficient use of system resources, and was used in such distributions as MachTen . AfterStep originally was a variant of FVWM modified to resemble NeXTSTEP , but as the development cycle progressed, it diverged from its FVWM roots. Features Features of the AfterStep window manager include Stacking windows Written in C Window decorations include borders and titlebars Titlebars have buttons for menu, minimize, maximize and close Active applications can be displayed in a taskbar via the winlist module Uses the GTK toolkit Support for modules Support for multiple desktops Desktop switching via a Pager GUI pager module Dependent on Perl and ImageMagick Modules AfterStep includes several modules such as Pager a visual tool for managing and cycling between multiple desktops WinList a simple Taskbar displaying active applications Wharf dock computing docking tool that manages Applet s Dockapps and launches application. AfterStep also supports virtual screens, and relies on a set of text based configuration files for customizing its appearance. AfterStep is maintained by a small community of developers with Sasha Vasko serving as project manager. See also Portal Free software GNUstep Window Maker OpenStep LiteStep External links http www.afterstep.org Official website Freshmeat afterstep AfterStep http wiki.afterstep.org AfterWiki Main Page http tigr.net afterstep AfterStep Applets http ... more details
provides a box to enter commands, programs not listed, no start button , not a taskbar awesome window ... is visible cwm window manager cwm fluxbox Provides a combined taskbar showing running applications fvwm95 Provides a start button and combined taskbar showing running applications icewm Provides a start button and combined taskbar showing running applications jwm Provides a start button and combined taskbar showing running applications qvwm Provides a start button and combined taskbar showing running applications whim window manager whim windowlab This provides a taskbar only, which does not show a menu, xpwm Provides a start button and combined taskbar showing running applications Commodore ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Infobox Software name Say the Time logo Image Say the Time 8.0 logo.png Say the Time logo 80px screenshot Commented out because image was deleted Image Say the Time 8 screenshot.png Screenshot of Say the Time 8.0 250px caption Say the Time 9.0 developer Provenio Software Corporation latest release version 9.0 latest release date March 12, 2007 operating system Microsoft Windows Windows genre Personal information managers license Proprietary software Proprietary , Shareware website http www.saythetime.com www.saythetime.com Say the Time is a personal time management computer program for Microsoft Windows Windows developed by Provenio Software Corporation . Its namesake feature is its ability to automatically announce the date and time aloud. Say the Time also allows its users to set multiple alarms and reminders, customize the look of their taskbar clock, synchronize their computer s time with an atomic time server clock server , and create virtual sticky notes. Say the Time was voted Best Vertical Market Program or Utility in the 2002 Shareware Industry Awards Foundation People s Choice Awards ref http www.sic.org peopleschoice.asp Shareware Industry Awards Foundation People s Choice Award Winners ref . History The first version of Say the Time , called Say the Time for Win95 , was released in 1996 and was made available as cardware . Its only function was to automatically announce the time at set intervals. Features Say the Time 9.0 has the following features Hear the Date and Time Fully Customizable Appointment Reminders Taskbar Clock Customization Hover Your Mouse ofve the Time for a Popup Calendar Automatic Updating of the Time via Internet Time Servers Around the World Stopwatch and Countdown Clocks View the Time in Different Parts of the World User Community While Say the Time may be useful to a variety of computer users, it has found a following among some niche groups. For example, Say the Time has a following among people with fibr ... more details
Infobox software name WindowLab logo screenshot Image windowlab screenshot.png 250px caption author Nick Gravgaard developer released 2001 latest release version 1.40 latest release date 2010 04 04 operating system Unix like platform programming language C programming language C genre Window manager license GNU General Public License GNU GPL v2 website http nickgravgaard.com windowlab nickgravgaard.com windowlab WindowLab is an X window manager for Unix like systems. It is based on aewm and retains that window manager s small and lightweight nature. In many aspects, WindowLab has looked to the Amiga s user interface for inspiration without cloning it completely. Its top level menu bar is accessed by a right click as on the Amiga and it follows Fitts law of usability in that once the mouse enters the menu area it is constrained there in both the horizontal and vertical directions. Unlike on the Amiga, the menu bar is not controlled by applications it is a global Application launcher launcher menu which is populated by a dot file in the user s home directory containing a list of menu titles and commands. WindowLab follows a click to focus but not raise on focus policy when a window is clicked it gets focus, but it is not redrawn to obscure other windows. This allows one, for example, to switch to a terminal to enter commands while keeping documentation visible in a web browser. A compositing window manager will allow this also, with a transparent terminal layered above the browser window, but WindowLab s solution is far less demanding of system resources. A window can be brought to the front in a number of ways by clicking on a window s title in the taskbar, clicking on the center title bar widget, by cycling through windows with the Alt Tab key combination, or by double clicking anywhere in the title bar. Open windows may also be cycled by clicking & dragging in the taskbar area. The developer states that many users find this faster than Mac OS X s Expos Mac OS X Ex ... more details
dock located on the left hand side of the screen, before they developed their own hybrid taskbar ... windows7 help better stronger faster the windows 7 taskbar The new Windows 7 taskbar http support.apple.com ... more details
. Taskbar Quick Launch was removed in favor of pinned applications. It is possible to revert to Quick ... will disappear upon restart. Clicking a grouped application s taskbar button or thumbnail when ... such as Volume , Network , Power and the taskbar date and time. ref http msdn.microsoft.com en us library aa511448.aspx richtooltips Notification Area Guidelines MSDN ref Floating Taskbar Desktop ... deskbands can be only pinned to taskbar. The ability to disable grouping placing next to each other similar taskbar buttons for example, Explorer windows is removed users can still disable combining multiple taskbar buttons of the same type into one button. The configurable registry option TaskbarGroupSize , which allowed fine grained control over taskbar grouping ref http support.microsoft.com kb Q281628 How to Change the Behavior of Taskbar Grouping ref under previous Windows versions is not supported ... when the taskbar is full. The number of combined taskbar windows is not calculated and shown next ... connectivity. The ability to turn off taskbar window previews thumbnails while still using ... Walkthrough Guide ref It is possible to turn off taskbar thumbnails when two or more windows are combined by setting a registry value, though. ref http damnmachine.com 309 windows 7 taskbar reg tweaks.html Windows 7 Taskbar reg tweaks ref The ability to disable the taskbar s always on top setting is removed. When grouping is disabled, the ability to manage multiple taskbar items using multiselect ... two power plans, one of them always being Balanced , are available to choose from the taskbar. The High Performance power plan is hidden by default in the Control Panel. When the taskbar is vertical ... on removal of classic Start menu and taskbar ref Certain features that were present only in the Classic ... to adjust the bit rate when burning data CDs has been removed. Windows Media Player s taskbar ... more details
including a start button , a taskbar , and a system tray . Menu Panel A menu panel a component of some ... between multiple desktops . The Pager GUI pager may appear as an onscreen window or as a gadget in the taskbar ... task switching facilities for example, by pressing Alt Tab Clicking on the task in a taskbar or taskpanel Taskbar Some window managers provide a taskbar which shows running applications. The taskbar may ... the facility to switch Focus computing focus between them. The taskbar may be incorporated into a menubar on some window managers. Task Panel A task panel is similar to a taskbar , but appears as a floating ... buttons in the taskbar or task panel , rather than in a titlebar . Virtual Desktop A virtual desktop ... more details
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