Originally posted by Agathon
Yes it is. A dock ready application can display that sort of information in the dock icon. For example, the Mail icon tells me how many unread mail messages I have and Aquisition tells me when a download is completed. Photoshop's icon has a progress bar to tell you how far along it is. You can also download docklings that tell you the weather, etc.
Why bother having a separate icon when one will do everything? It's a waste of space. Or don't you understand the concept of "a waste of space"?
Yes it is. A dock ready application can display that sort of information in the dock icon. For example, the Mail icon tells me how many unread mail messages I have and Aquisition tells me when a download is completed. Photoshop's icon has a progress bar to tell you how far along it is. You can also download docklings that tell you the weather, etc.
Why bother having a separate icon when one will do everything? It's a waste of space. Or don't you understand the concept of "a waste of space"?
Further, it's not a separate icon, programs can either run with a tray icon and a taskbar entry, or just a taskbar entry, or just a tray icon.
If you actually took the time to think about it, you'd see not only does this save space, but it intuitively makes sense since tray icons are more or less background tasks that are accessed far less frequently.
You sound like a guy who wants two light switches. One for on and one for off.
And both Drake and I have clarified to you that one would have to be a visually impaired idiot to be confused in this situation. You still don't get it after all this time and still say it's confusing. It isn't at all, unless you are an idiot.
A computer is a tool, not an end in itself.
Computer scientists do far more for the people of this world than a modern philosophy major, especially one who so obviously has trouble thinking about things.
I don't use it but it works just fine.
Because there is no need for it. The uses you mentioned just aren't needed.
Presumably, Windows doesn't allow functionality for useless things.
Why don't you just admit that you don't know how to use the OS X interface properly?
You've accused it of not having functions that it patently has.
OS X doesn't have any of that, and you've ignored it and had the balls to say it does have them in some umbrella statement.
In fact you can navigate through the dock just like the Windows taskbar if you want, but that option is for users with disabilties which pretty much tells you all you need to know about the Windows interface.
That's really interesting, I didn't know that.
So please attach screenshots of the following if it truly behaves like the Windows taskbar:
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