where should the taskbar be?

in the balls

none

>t. twm chad

>>105894697 (OP)
left because I want to maximize vertical area

>>105894712
i kneel

Top has the least mouse cursor distance for almost every software so the answer should be obvious

>>105894697 (OP)
Windows: bottom
Linux: side
Mac: top

>>105894720
>140% zoom level

boomer moment

>>105894697 (OP)
top if always shown
bottom if hidden
left/right if mentally disabled

>>105894751
you can not put the Mac OS dock on the top it's forbidden by Apple design experts.

>>105894697 (OP)
on the left
autohide enabled
animation disabled

>>105894697 (OP)
Windows 11 only allows you to put it on the bottom for whatever reason.

>>105894754
im on a 4k tv and im at 125%. pretty comfy

>>105894697 (OP)
On the bottom because that's the most intuitive

>>105894754
yes, the font on 4chan is too small

On widescreen monitors left/right are the only acceptable positions. Vertical space is already limited and wasting any on the taskbar is dumb.

>>105894896
99% of normies don't even know they can move the taskbar,
they just eat the whatever the default slop is.

also the poor faggots who use a mac, I don't think the taskbar can even be moved?

>>105894697 (OP)
left
don't question me

>>105894923
> also the poor faggots who use a mac, I don't think the taskbar can even be moved?
The dock can be placed left, right or bottom. The menu bar can not be moved.

>>105894923
in macos there is no task bar
there is a dock which can be relocated left, bottom or right
and a menu bar which cannot be relocated at all

>>105894923
On mac it can be moved. Windows 11 however...

>>105894697 (OP)
hidden on the left. it's a waste of space

>>105894697 (OP)
>rational answer (on 16:9 screens)
Vertical left top-down

>conservative answer
Horizontal bottom left (windows default)

>contrarian answer
Horizontal top left (os/2 default)

>hipster answer
Vertical right top-down (beos default)

>shlomo answer
Horizontal bottom right (with desktop elements aligned right, muh nextstep or whatever)

>??? answer
Horizontal top right

At the bottom because that's what I've been used to since 1995

>>105894697 (OP)
top is best. bottom is 2nd best. if you put it on the sides you should be publicly executed and have your corpse pissed and shat on by the crowd

>>105895514
Did you remember movable taskbar under Win XP / Win 7

It's been on the bottom since Concurrent DOS.

>>105894697 (OP)
>where should the taskbar be?
hidden

>>105894697 (OP)
not there

>>105894697 (OP)
Buttom. I hate shit on the sides if it isn't in a application window. Little black bar on top for stats that way it looks like a fancy extention of the monitor frame.
Just got an intel i3 touch monitor computer from a yard sale. If the scren works, I'll give it a bunch of fancy margin buttons.

>>105894955
>Windows 11
what faggot uses that?

>>105894720
>want to maximize vertical area
>don't put windows side-by-side

>>105896149
Anyone with a job in a Windows company. Which is like 99% of people with jobs.

>>105894697 (OP)
The four corners of a well designed desktop:
>bottom left: start menu
>top left: back button
>top right: close button
>bottom left: peak at desktop
just as god intended.

>>105895994
anon, the dock is more similar to the taskbar then the top bar in apple shit

>>105894697 (OP)
Bottom and left are both acceptable. Because that way it won't interfere with flicking the mouse to use the scrollbar or the window control buttons.
I prefer bottom. Make it as small as possible to maximize space, make the window name visible by the icon, and do not stack windows under the same icon.

>>105894697 (OP)
as a long strip on the keyboard

>>105896226
source?

i have it on top

>>105895578
Never moved it as it was in the correct position by default

>>105894697 (OP)
i used to use top but so many applications fuck up when it's at the top due to messing up what's assigned to relative/absolute coordinates, every time you open the application the window position creeps the same amount of pixels as the taskbar height

i put it on the left now, problems still happen but it feels like there's fewer of them

>>105894697 (OP)
On a 16:9 laptop I used left taskbar and I made it thinner with 7+ taskbar tweaker. Now I have a 16:10 laptop so I put it on the bottom.

when you hit the windows key a task radial menu should pop up under the mouse

ITT

taskbars are such a dated concept

your "OS" should just be a nice desktop picture, the interface is just your microphone and an AI assistant

if the user ever sees so much as a button, you failed as an OS dev

>>105894697 (OP)
left or right side, with the xbox huge icons turned off. that way you have plenty of room to list your windows without them having to squish

>>105894879

>for whatever reason

Because it was coded from scratch and is inferior to the original Windows 95 code.

>>105897786
wrong. the interface should be all holograms like it was promised to us in futuristic movies

>>105897843
you traded the hologram and flying car future for multiculturalism, I'm sorry but this is the consequence of your choices

>>105897869
lmao this. retards literally put the planet on a guaranteed dystopian hell hole plot line and dont even realize it.

>>105894697 (OP)
What's a taskbar?

>>105894697 (OP)
Wait, did M$ fix Windows 11's shitty taskbar?

>>105894697 (OP)
>32:9 / 21:9 / 16:9 displays
sides
>5:4 / 3:2 / 4:3 / 16:10 displays
top or bottom
simple as

>>105894697 (OP)
You use top AND bottom.
Top is a thin-as-possible always visible taskbar with the start menu on the left and all status indicators/systray stuff plus clock on the right.
Bottom is a large auto hiding taskbar with all the actual task management tools (quick launchers, non-grouped multi-row full-name task buttons, virtual desktop switcher).
Fuck icon-only grouped tasks, searching through them is too slow.

>>105897893
>victim blaming
if you won't name the cause you're part of the problem

Bottom with "small" icons and titles shown of course.

left, right, and anything where all the functionality is located in a screen corner just doesn't make sense in the era of gigawide monitors

>>105898046
that was my arrangement when I had a 16:10 monitor, you could have top and bottom bars with a perfect 1080p viewport between them, as long as they added up to 120px
I miss it so much

>>105898097
Why did you get rid of it?

>>105898108
it died on me, it was a korean panel manufactured in 2008
dell used to sell 16:10 panels but they seem to be shifting away from them, such a shame

>>105898207
>muh korean panels
oh man that's 2010s /g/ lol I remember that

>>105894720
>want to maximize vertical area
>not using vertical browser tabs

>>105895994
why does macos and some other modern operating systems do this

>>105898371
Rectangles are associated with masculinity and fascism.

>>105894697 (OP)
I preferred it up top once I moved to a large format display (40" 4K), but Windows' DWM on 11 is so fucking ghetto now you can no longer do that.

>>105894697 (OP)
Taskbar should be wherever the user wants it to be, including nowhere or floating or on whatever combination of monitors. Operating systems are a joke.

>>105898371
Unified visual language across mobile and desktop. They should put a black circle in the middle of every app toolbar IMO.

>>105898090
when did Win11 add this feature I thought you weren't allowed to use anything but default anymore unlike Win10 without third party programs/regedits

>>105894720
>want to maximize vertical area
>doesn't rotate monitor to vertical orientation

>>105894892
Put your glasses on, Unc.

>>105898411
>attempts to shitpost
>gets it right accidentally

Bottom of my monitor has burn-in issues so I switched to the top. Feels more natural looking up instead of down for the time and date

Autohidden at the bottom

>>105894720
This.

Use to have it on top, to minimize amount of mouse movement (most buttons are at top of window)

>>105898371
https://www.folklore.org/Round_Rects_Are_Everywhere.html

If you're a cheerleader for skeuomorphism, you should appreciate that remaining vestige that manages to persist despite other interface reworkings.

same place my tabs go

>>105901523

>>105898090
>vertical padding wasting 40% of icon space regardless of the size
what joke

what a joke*

>>105898594
That feature literally got removed after a year and the replacement is "in progress" and still doesn't actually shrink the taskbar just the icons.
>regedits
What's wrong with these..? Literally every setting is just a fancy GUI for changing a registry entry. This is /g/ you shouldn't be scared of changing a documented entry at a documented path.

>>105901523
>use vertical tabs
>address bar still takes the entire space anyway

trash UI design

>>105896226
Sitting at a computer all day is not a real job.

>>105897050
>so many applications fuck up
Oh yea? Name ten.

There is no debate because the answer is simple.
To the bottom
See picrel?
That's a desktop on a traditional desk.
Where do you draw stuff from? The side? the top?
No, from the bottom aka front.

>but muh screen space muh wasted pixels
Look at a book. A book is usually something like 16:9 too. Where do you find eg annotations? Or page numbers? on the side of each page? No - on the bottom. It's a convention we've had for thousands of years, people got used to it. End of discussion

>>105894720
>want to maximize vertical area
>not using 1080x1920

It should be on the actual fucking edge of the screen instead of having a stupid useless gap.

Vertical tabs?

>>105904626
Is the annotation along the long side? No? That's because it goes on the short side. Which side is usually the short side? The left or right.

bump

>>105907489
I mean more like footnotes.
Yknow, the thing that professional publishers do vs the thing clueless tinkertrannies cluster beautiful books with to turn them unreadable

>>105910475
That was the most retarded thing I've ever written but the footnote is still along the short side of the page so now you're totally incoherent AND wrong.