Mac OS X users...

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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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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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.
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
No Shi* I said sys tray. I know what the dock is. Raise Up Dude. The dock is not a sys tray.

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
It has something like the system tray and it appears on the finder bar on the top. It's not part of the dock.
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
that was wierd. I hit reload and got a completely different string. will teach me not to scroll up. Nothing to see here. sorry.
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
bakerstreet... Bud... Dude... Huh?

Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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.....
Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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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Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Wow, cool. Thanks for the info guys.