The Task Area

Documentation / Contents - Toolchest

• Overview of the Toolchest
• The Toolchest Menu
  • Posting a Menu
  • Greyed-Out Entries
• Launching Applications
  • What the Toolchest Does Not Do
• Shape, Orientation, and Title
  • Vertical or Horizontal
  • The Title Bar and the Desk Name
• The Task Area
  • Alternate Toolchest Shapes

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• Copyright Information

The Task Area

The task area is where minimized windows collect so you can bring them back. Today, minimizing a window leaves it as an icon on the desktop itself. The window manager owns that icon and parks it along a reserved screen edge if you have one set. This is the traditional Indigo Magic behavior.

Alternate Toolchest Shapes

Beyond the classic corner bar, the Toolchest is growing a set of dock styles, including a taskbar strip that runs the full width of a screen edge. In that shape the strip can act as the task area, gathering running and minimized windows into one row the way a taskbar does. These alternate shapes are still being built; the default remains the classic launcher bar described in this book.

See The Toolchest Menu to return to the menu basics.