The Bottom Panel
The bottom panel, as you can see in Figure 3-4, is a much simpler affair, containing only the four items I will now briefly describe.
Show Desktop A button that minimizes all open windows and allows you to see your desktop when it is obscured from view. |
Window List A list of windows or applications you have open, which is very similar to what happens in the Windows taskbar. |
Workspace Switcher An application that allows you to switch between virtual desktops. (I'll talk about this more in "Virtual Desktops" on Virtual Desktops.) |
Trash There is nothing mysterious about Trash…other than its rather Mac OS X–ish location on the panel. |
Figure 3-4. The ...
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