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Reminds me of customizing WindowMaker's dock with system monitor widgets[1]. I wonder how quickly (or if at all) the macOS dock responds to changes to an app's

• pram 6y ago
  Same thing I was going to post! I always loved those little widgets, especially the one with the rubber ducky. They just have this whimsical feeling modern desktops are lacking https://www.dockapps.net/wmbubble https://www.dockapps.net/wmbubble
• LeoPanthera 6y ago
  I feel so old. The original Mac OS X dock supported "live" icons. If you minimized the System Monitor, the icon turned into a real time CPU graph. If you minimized a QuickTime video, the video continued playing, tiny, right in the dock. I was really sad when this went away, and I don't really understand why it did.
  • webmobdev 6y ago
    > If you minimized the System Monitor, the icon turned into a real time CPU graph. On macOS Mojave, the Activity Monitor still does show real-time graph in the icon if you want it to - right-clicking the icon gives you various graphs to choose from. Don't know about the QT videos though.
    • ilikepi 6y ago
      Wow, I did not realize Activity Monitor did that. QuickTime Player seems to have lost its dynamic icon, though. I've gotten to the point where I don't even use the dock anymore, it just stays hidden. Quite a long way from the good ole' days of themes.org, freshmeat.net, and spending hours customizing my desktop environment.