Mac OS X users...

Wednesday, November 27, 2002 by jarget | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk

I've been wondering this for a while so I'm finally gonna ask. I've seen several screenshots of OS X but I've never seen a sys tray. Does the OS use one, have one, what ??

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giro3654
Reply #1 Wednesday, November 27, 2002 8:12 PM
MacOS X has a thing called the dock. This is were you have apps that you can run, if there is a black triangle under it then it is open.

jarget
Reply #2 Wednesday, November 27, 2002 11:07 PM
No Shi* I said sys tray. I know what the dock is. Raise Up Dude. The dock is not a sys tray.


Frogboy
Reply #3 Wednesday, November 27, 2002 11:35 PM
It has something like the system tray and it appears on the finder bar on the top. It's not part of the dock.

bakerstreet
Reply #4 Thursday, November 28, 2002 1:05 AM
jarget: People normally don't put them in all the way. They fart around with drivers for a half hour, took out the card to get the model number or something off it, and put it all the way in the second time. Then the next set of drivers mysteriously works! It's all microsoft's fault, though.

bakerstreet
Reply #5 Thursday, November 28, 2002 1:07 AM
that was wierd. I hit reload and got a completely different string. will teach me not to scroll up. Nothing to see here. sorry.

jarget
Reply #6 Thursday, November 28, 2002 2:23 AM
bakerstreet... Bud... Dude... Huh?


adni18
Reply #7 Thursday, November 28, 2002 5:34 AM
As a Frogboy said, there is taskbar, system tray and start menu in the top of the desktop, but has not the same look as the Windows, very nice though

jfghjk
Reply #8 Thursday, November 28, 2002 12:36 PM
There is no system tray, but there are menu icons for dial-up, displays, and volume. You can add third-party menus like weather-pop, moon menu, and a really cool one called backlight that lets you run a screensaver as your desktop background.
It's kind of like a system tray, but different.....

Carlitus
Reply #9 Thursday, November 28, 2002 12:49 PM
yes, there's no system tray.
On the Menu bar (the top bar) there's 3 icons (for sound volume, monitor settings and a clock). Different applications use this space to add menus with shorcuts to apps, or extra control panels; and some other applications use the dock (that allows animated icons to show activity, post menus, show the amount of incoming emails (as Mail, the famous mail client by Apple). Other icons show the activity with a small progress bar, as Photoshop 7 when is busy openning a file, or Roxio Toast (a cd burn app) when is burning a CD with your favorite songs (for example, a compilation of Sheryl Crow songs).
The only 'task' feature i miss on OSX is the 'showing names' as the Windows taskbar (for example a button that shows the opened page in Internet Explorer)

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jarget
Reply #10 Thursday, November 28, 2002 7:13 PM
Wow, cool. Thanks for the info guys.

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