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Everybody post a screencap of what your taskbar or dock looks like in the middle of a typical day =)
If you have nowhere to host it, e-mail it to me and I'll stick it up for you. I think it can be very telling as to what you're like.
Here's me at home. I'll have to do my work one on Monday.
[Update - February 24, 2003, 2138h]
Here's me at work. =P I so seriously need virtual desktops... but I'm afraid it might crash my finicky machine. This is two and a half projects' worth of stuff happening. I have scripts running over on remote machines; I have a set of test results I'm looking at (that bunch of browsers on the bottom level); I'm taking a screenshot to show one of the guys something and an e-mail composition ready to send him that screenshot; I'm poking around in two MySQL databases...
Oh, I also have a Mac! I need to do Splat-Shift-4-CapsLock when I get to work tomorrow.
[Update - February 25, 2003, 1048h]
Here's me on my Mac at work. It's 1 cm high at 1024x768 resolution. I can only have my display up to 1024x768 because of the crappy video card. The dock size is pushed as small as it will go and I have Magnification turned off. I obviously don't use the Mac very much. And when I do, all I do is open up Terminal shells unless I need the applications.
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I realized that I didn't have my Task Manager and a few others when I did the screencap either. =\
*grin* Woohoo, thanks for hosting that. Fun idea. :D
I'll post some from work as well later if I think of it (I have multiple desktops there).
I have mine just about the same way. E-mail always comes first, then a browser or two, then other apps =)
And that's exactly why I have the double-height bar... because otherwise, my system tray would stretch all the way to my start button =D
At work, the taskbar keeps getting re-sorted because when I switch virtual desktops, it usually shuffles the icons around so I can't rely on "the third terminal window from the left is currently in directory /foo". It's not that bad, though.
This came from the time when I used Netscape 4 as my primary browser and had multiple windows open ... someone saw my taskbar and recommended DT to me :)
Now I use Opera, which has all of its tabs in one window, but I've got used to it now... I instinctively press Alt+1 to get to my email desktop and Alt+2 to get to my browser desktop (sometimes I even press Alt+1 at home when I want to send email :P).
Desktop 1 (called "Basis"; mostly it only has Outlook and possibly some open emails; recently it's also acquired an SSH window):
In the system tray, you can also see icons for Pegasus Mail and mIRC, which are minimised most of the time. Every now and then I open them to see whether anything interesting has happened (though Pegasus also notifies me of new mail on the account it watches by flapping its wings; it's mostly for London Perl Mongers and Lojban Beginners mailing lists).
Desktop 2 (called "Browser", where I keep my browser, a file explorer and often a couple of viewers on Lojban vocab files to translate things on the lojban mailing list):
Here you can see Pegasus and mIRC on the taskbar.
Desktop 3 (called "Botanix", from the name of the host I used to work one):
I now work on a different project on a different box, so the "botanix" is a misnomer, but I haven't bothered renaming the virtual desktop. This desktop usually has a couple of terminal windows and often a bunch of editor windows (gvim over an X Window connection; hence the Exceed icon in the taskbar, which is the X server).
Desktop 4 (called "Hintergrund", i.e. "background" -- a kind of overflow desktop for when I want to open a program or two that doesn't take up screen and taskbar space on an existing desktop):
It's nearly always empty. Desktop 5 is empty even more of the time, but I keep around 5 desktops "just in case".
Ooo... That might be an idea for me too. Thanks! =)
pne's scary!
I'll unblock it to have a look at it sometime... =)
I'll have to take a screen capture when I'm not on my lunch and I have a little more time .... althought my poor old computer is so slow its not that interesting! I can't have too much open at once, poor thing.
Haha! Yeah, I got the idea from someone else too, after years and years of going, hmmm... now which one of these slivers is the one I want? ... *click* oops, wrong one ... *click* oops, wrong one ... *click* oops, wrong one ... *click* oops, wrong one ... =D
And yes, mail happened to be my first application today because my IE crashed early this morning. IE is usually my first series of windows because it is the fastest application to launch. I configure my apps to autolaunch on startup.
btw, thanks for hosting!
I tried moving my taskbar to the right (it feels odd with it on the left, for some reason). I find that the bar wastes less space and my windows can be taller this way as well.
This setup definitely saves space for me at the office. I'm sure you'll convert after trying it out for a while. :)
At home though, I have my taskbar at the bottom. Reason being, I don't have so many windows open at once.