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| Computer Desktop Encyclopedia: toolbar |
A row or column of on-screen buttons used to activate functions in the application. Many toolbars are customizable, letting you add and delete buttons as required. Toolbars may be fixed in position or may float, which means they can be dragged to a more convenient location in the application window by the user. For example, floating toolbars are common in graphics applications so that they can be moved into the canvas area closer to the objects being drawn. See tool palette, tool and toolkit.
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| Business Dictionary: Toolbar |
Area of a computer screen, often across the top, containing Buttons and Menus. In some applications a toolbar can be docked at any edge of the screen or torn off to become a floating palette. Toolbars can also be turned off (caused not to appear). Also called a button bar.
| Wikipedia: Toolbar |
In a graphical user interface on a computer monitor a toolbar is a GUI widget on which onscreen buttons, icons, menus or other input or output elements are placed.
Earlier forms of toolbars were defined by the programmer and had set functions, and thus there was no difference between a toolbar with buttons and just a row of buttons. Most modern programs and operating systems however, allow the end user to modify and customize toolbars to fit their personal needs. Some prominent examples of customizable toolbars are panels of the GNOME and KDE desktop environments, functions of which range from expandable menus and buttons for applications, window lists, notification areas, clocks and resource monitors to volume controls and weather report widgets.
Some applications, e.g. graphics editors, allow their toolbars to be detached and moved between windows and other toolbars.
The first toolbar appeared on the Xerox Alto computer in 1973[citation needed].
Toolbars are seen in office suites such as OpenOffice.org, graphics editors such as Inkscape and web browsers such as Mozilla Firefox.
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Toolbars implemented as web browser plug-ins have become a popular advertising platform for major brands such as Google and Yahoo, as well as smaller spyware and malware vendors. Browser toolbars are commonly bundled with installers for other "partner" products as an "opt-out" default without the user's explicit consent.[1] Not all toolbars are bundled with spyware or malware.[citation needed]
Browser toolbars provide helpful and useful functionality such as additional search fields, form-fill, links back to popular sites, malware detection, etc. However, their primary purpose is generally to collect anonymous marketing statistics or reinforce a brand (by displaying the logo at the top of each browser window).[2] As plug-ins to the web browser application, toolbars can also sometimes degrade performance or create compatibility problems.[3][unreliable source?]
Popular third party web browser toolbars include:
A bookmarks toolbar or favorites toolbar features in a number of modern web browsers, including Mozilla Firefox,[4] Safari, and Google Chrome, and serves as a means of persistently presenting a user's most necessary Web bookmarks. Folders of bookmarks (and, in the case of Firefox, live bookmarks of web feeds) are represented in a bookmark toolbar as drop-down lists which display the titles and (if the site was already visited and cached) favicons of bookmarked websites.
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| Translations: Toolbar |
Dansk (Danish)
n. - værktøjsbjælke (på computerskærm)
Français (French)
n. - (Comput) barre d'outils
Deutsch (German)
n. - (Comp.) Tool-Leiste
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - γραμμή εργαλείων
Español (Spanish)
n. - barra de símbolos gráficos que pueden ser utilizados como botones para activar funciones, etc.
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - verktygslist
中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
工具栏
中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 工具欄
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) قائمه في أعلى الشاشه تبين العمليات المتاحه (كومبيوتر)
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - רצועה בראש המרקע המכילה כפתורים להפעלת תוכניות-שירות שונות (מחשב)
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