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this menu as a way for a user to control certain playback options. Other Applications include changing the status of an online alias (MSN, AIM/iChat etc.) or automatically saving the changes that have been made in a document (There is no current application with this feature made available for macOS). Docklings (in Mac OS X 10.4 or earlier) can also be opened by using the right-mouse button, if the mouse has one, but most of the time either clicking and holding or control-click will bring the menu up.
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instead be placed on the left or right edges of the screen if the user wishes. Applications that do not normally keep icons in the Dock will still appear there when running and remain until they are quit. These features are unlike those of the dock in the NeXT operating systems where the capacity of the Dock is dependent on
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below its icon. If the program is running, there isn't an ellipsis on the icon. In macOS, running applications have been variously identified by a small black triangle (Mac OS X 10.0-10.4) a blue-tinted luminous dot (Mac OS X 10.5-10.7), a horizontal light bar (OS X 10.8 and 10.9), and a simple black
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was developed, wrote an article in 2001 listing ten problems he saw with the Dock. This article was updated in 2004, removing two of the original criticisms and adding a new one. One of his concerns was that the Dock uses too much screen space. Another was that icons only show their labels when the
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The macOS Dock also has extended menus that control applications without making them visible on screen. On most applications it has simple options such as Quit, Keep In Dock, Remove From Dock, and other options, though some applications use these menus for other purposes, such as iTunes, which uses
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In macOS, however, the Dock is used as a repository for any program or file in the operating system. It can hold any number of items and resizes them dynamically to fit while using magnification to better view smaller items. By default, it appears on the bottom edge of the screen, but it can also
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The original version of the dock, found in Mac OS X Public Beta to 10.0, presents a flat white translucent interface with the Aqua styled pinstripes. The dock found in Mac OS X 10.1 to 10.4 removes the pinstripes, but otherwise is identical. Mac OS X 10.5 to 10.7 presents the applications on a
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pointer hovers over them, so similar-looking folders, files, and windows are difficult to distinguish. Tognazzini also criticized the fact that when icons are dragged out of the Dock, they vanish with no easy way to get them back; he called this behavior "object annihilation".
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When an application on the Dock is launched by clicking on it, it will jump until the software is finished loading. Additionally, when an application requires attention from a user, it will jump even higher until its icon is clicked and the user attends to its demands.
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the following year, he also noted that the Dock does far too many tasks than it should for optimum ease-of-use, including launching apps, switching apps, opening files, and holding minimized windows. Siracusa further criticized the Dock after the release of
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application dock. OS X 10.8 to 10.9 changes the look to resemble frosted glass with rounded corners. OS X 10.10 and later revert to a two-dimensional appearance, similar to Mac OS X 10.4, although more translucent and with a iOS 7 blur effect.
369:(2006-2012 or 2019-). iPhone OS 3.2 for iPad and iOS 4 to 6 adopted the dock design from Mac OS X 10.5 to 10.7 which was used until iOS 7, which uses a similar dock from Mac OS X Tiger but with iOS 7 styled blur effects. In 534:, noting that it was made less usable for the sake of eye-candy. Siracusa criticized the 3D look and reflections, the faint blue indicator for open applications, and less distinguishable files and folders. 541:, stated some concerns with the Dock, including the facts that it grows in both directions, holds the Trash icon, and has no persistent labels. Holwerda also criticized the revised Dock appearance in 271:-like app, onto the bar. Also, when the screen was put into landscape mode, the user could choose to position the Button Bar at the right or left side of the screen, just like the Dock in macOS. 196:, which are permanent fixtures as the leftmost and rightmost items (or highest and lowest items if the Dock is vertically oriented), respectively. Part of the macOS 1973: 662: 1691: 145:. It is used to launch applications and to switch between running applications. The Dock is also a prominent feature of macOS's predecessor 525:
in 2000. He noted that because the Dock is centered, adding and removing icons changes the location of the other icons. In a review of
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functionality since macOS inherits no other such technology from NeXTSTEP. (Minimal Shelf functionality has been implemented in the
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onto the Dock to add it to the dock, and any application can be dragged from the dock to remove it, except for
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operating systems. The earliest known implementations of a dock are found in operating systems such as
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three-dimensional glassy surface from a perspective instead of the traditional flat one, resembling
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In iPhone OS 1 to 3, the dock used a metal look which looks similar to the front of the
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does have a dock-like application called Launcher, which was first introduced with
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Apple applied for a US patent for the design of the Dock in 1999 and was granted
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MacOS was not the first operating system to implement dock-like features.
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In NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP, the Dock is an application launcher that holds
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The changes to the dock bring its functionality also close to that of
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in October 2008, nearly a decade later. Any application can be
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Leopard dock resembles Sun's Project Looking Glass? - Engadget
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and iPhone X is redesigned to more resemble the macOS dock.
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Microsoft implemented a simplified dock feature in the
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Index

Dock (OS X)
Developer(s)
Apple Inc.
Operating system
macOS
Type
Taskbar
support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/open-apps-from-the-dock-mh35859/mac
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graphical user interface
macOS
NeXTSTEP
OPENSTEP
RISC OS
iOS
iPhone
iPod Touch
iPadOS
iPad
the patent
dragged and dropped
Finder
Trash
Core Services

icons
programs
ellipsis
display resolution
Shelf

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