What is NeXbar 1.0b2?

NeXbar is a NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP style dock/application launcher for Mac OS X. It provides an invisible area on the screen where commonly used applications can be dragged to and launched.

Features

• drag applications (carbon, cocoa, classic) from finder to right edge of screen to dock them in NeXbar
• drag a tile out of NeXbar to undock it (remove it from NeXbar)
• re-arrange applications by dragging them around within NeXbar
• launch applications by single or double clicking on them
• move NeXbar vertically by dragging the topmost tile up/down
• move NeXbar horizontally by cmd-dragging the topmost tile left/right
• contents/location are remembered upon subsequent launches
• preferences to set the transparency/size of tiles
• preference to reset the root icon (topmost tile)
• cmd-click to order dock forward/backward
• plug-in architecture for writing dock plug-ins/modules
• preference to specify the number of clicks to launch an application
• plug-ins preference panel for selecting which plug-ins to load and to specify the order in which they show up in NeXbar
• drag files onto application tile in NeXbar to open it with that application
• elipses (dots) are shown for applications that are not running and are not shown for ones that are
• clicking (based on click preference) on an already running application in NeXbar brings it to the foreground
• clicking (based on click preference) on topmost tile launches finder
• applications are highlighted in the dock for the duration of the launch even when launched from elsewhere in the operating system (i.e. Finder)

Download NeXbar 1.0b2 for Mac

Architecture

IBM PowerPC

System Requirements

From Mac OS 10.0 up to Mac OS 10.4

Compatibility notes

Emulating this? It could probably run under: QEMU