SuperBar Vs Normal Taskbar

[Superleeds27]

Just a thought:

Who uses the old style taskbar still? Like the one in vista, thin strip...

And who uses the new 'Superbar'

Advantages of one over another?

 

[Superleeds27]

This is my only annoyance.

The gap from the bottom of the box, and the bottom of the taskbar. It annoying when you click it accidently when trying to click a box.

Can this be changed?

 

[fseal]

Heh I love the new task bar. It could use some work to be even better (like allowing more than one!!!) but it took me a surprisingly long time to "grok" it.

So mired in the old task bar way of doing things I was really peeved that you couldn't make a new menu bar and attach it to the top or side like before. That's where I stored all my icons!

FINALLY I realized that you just stored them on the main task bar now (duh). Whether a program was open or not didn't matter! No more space was used either way. When you clicked on an icon it either launched or switched to it. Brilliant.

Now there are a couple of weird problems with that and multiple instances but I've already forgotten what they were so it must not have been critical. Actually still easier than dealing with an over crowded old style task bar.

I just wish... that you could pin a folder to the task bar and have it be a popup menu for other less used shortcuts or lists of common documents or whatever you wanted to throw into it...

 

[786qwerty]

This is my only annoyance.

The gap from the bottom of the box, and the bottom of the taskbar. It annoying when you click it accidently when trying to click a box.

Can this be changed?

I think if you right click on taskbar and go to properties and choose use small icons, it should fix this.

 

[Superleeds27]

That halfs the size of the box.

If anything i would like the box to touch the bottom of the taskbar, fill that little ciupple of mm gap that there is.

 

[Superleeds27]

Im guessin one of these figures changes the height of the taskbar boxes?

 

[copernicus]

Heh I love the new task bar. It could use some work to be even better (like allowing more than one!!!) but it took me a surprisingly long time to "grok" it.

So mired in the old task bar way of doing things I was really peeved that you couldn't make a new menu bar and attach it to the top or side like before. That's where I stored all my icons!

FINALLY I realized that you just stored them on the main task bar now (duh). Whether a program was open or not didn't matter! No more space was used either way. When you clicked on an icon it either launched or switched to it. Brilliant.

Now there are a couple of weird problems with that and multiple instances but I've already forgotten what they were so it must not have been critical. Actually still easier than dealing with an over crowded old style task bar.

I just wish... that you could pin a folder to the task bar and have it be a popup menu for other less used shortcuts or lists of common documents or whatever you wanted to throw into it...

Look for 7 stacks here on the forum.

 

[fseal]

I actually tried 7 stacks but it wasn't quite right, it sort of half worked for what I wanted. (though I forget the details of what didn't work the way I expected atm)

I'm thinking I might make it a programming project, but it should work basically just like the program menu with multi level flyouts for any sub folders in the pinned folder and work justlike a launch menu. Super simple fast and easy.

 

[rekoiln]

I like the new taskbar. It used to have alot of quick launch icons so they would take alot of space.

 

[spliff]

I use the regular bar, looks cool and I don't need to have GIANT icons.

 

[sergiogarcia9]

I love the new taskbar, the big icons, the jumplist's, everything about it really

 

[oneextraid]

You can add toolbars to the taskbar to provide a popup menu for other shortcuts. See attached.

 

[harpua]

Another cool thing about the new taskbar is that once you have the icons of frequently used apps arranged the way you want them, they don't change position depending on which program is opened first. I love that. Also prefer the small icons once I got used to it which just took a few days. It has a nice neat clean look.

 

[ten]

Old style here. I have 50 Quick Launch shortcuts. No way that would fit on the new one.

 

[Lee]

Confirmed, the new taskbar is great. Since I started beta testing the first thing that went away was the Dock. Don't need it with the new taskbar. And because I use a large monitor (28") I have placed the taskbar on the left side of the screen giving me the compete screen (1200) up and down which is great when viewing my browser, or working in Word, or Lightroom/Photoshop.

 

[Lee]

Ten,

50. . .:huh:

 

[copernicus]

Old style here. I have 50 Quick Launch shortcuts. No way that would fit on the new one.

That's called a start menu. Honestly, prioritize dude.

 

[Mercurial]

yea just pin the ones you really use like instatly after you login and other sh*ts can go in the startmnu

 

[ten]

For me the start menu is for low priority so don't tell me to use things the way you do. I'm not you.

 

[LarryLaser]

Yea Buddy

For me the start menu is for low priority so don't tell me to use things the way you do. I'm not you.

I agree with you "Ten"
I have even created individual folders (and changed the Icon view) of categories of Applications that I use massively. With them in the Quick Launch part of the bar for easy access.

The start menu on Win 7 (in my opinion sucks) is to confused from the base level. To make it the way you need it means re-build it.

I have 40 Quick links in the Quick Launch part of the bar and 18 Quick links (pin to start menu) in the start menu. and I use them all constantly for lots of work.

For the Start menu, its, "Click", "Click", "Scroll", "Click", "Click".
For the Quick Launch, its, "Click", "Click".