Editing Taskbar (section)

== macOS ==
[[Classic Mac OS]] did not display a taskbar onscreen by default. Application switching prior to [[Mac OS 8.5]] was done by clicking on an application's window or via a [[pull-down menu]] at the right end of the [[menu bar]]. Prior to version 8.5 the menu's title was the icon of the foreground application. Version 8.5 introduced the ability to optionally also display the application name and to "tear off" the menu by dragging the title with the mouse. The torn off menu was displayed as a [[Palette window|palette]]. The palette window could be configured using [[AppleScript]] to appear much like a taskbar, with no title bar and fixed to one edge of the screen. No [[control panel (software)|control panel]] was provided by Apple to access this functionality, but third-party developers quickly wrote applications that allowed users unfamiliar with AppleScript to customize their application palettes. Third party taskbars such as [[DragThing]] were a popular category of [[shareware]] on these systems.

The [[Dock (OS X)|Dock]], as featured in [[macOS]] and its predecessor [[NeXTSTEP]], is also a kind of taskbar. The macOS Dock is application-oriented instead of window-oriented. Each running application is represented by one icon in the Dock regardless of how many windows it has on screen. A textual menu can be opened by right-clicking on the dock icon that gives access to an application's windows. [[Mac OS X 10.2]] added the ability for an application to add items of its own to this menu. Minimized windows also appear in the dock, in the rightmost section, represented by a real-time graphical thumbnail of the window's contents. The [[trash (computing)|trash can]] is also represented in the Dock, as a universal metaphor for deletion. For example, dragging selected text to the trash should remove the text from the document and create a clipping file in the trash.

The right side of macOS's [[Menu bar]] also typically contains several notification widgets and quick access functions, called [[Menu extra]]s.

{{wide image|MacOS_dock.png|800px|The default Dock in [[macOS Sequoia]] in light mode}}