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Frosted top bar

Dock Desktop's frosted top bar owns the macOS traffic-light row and serves as the home for the sidebar pin, org switcher, and Agents nav. Glass blur, brand-tinted edge, full-width — native chrome that reads as Dock.

Anatomy

  • Traffic lights — the macOS close / minimize / zoom buttons live inside the bar's left edge, not above it. The bar absorbs the title-bar row so the canvas can start higher.
  • Sidebar pin — the affordance for pinning or unpinning the auto-hide rail lives in the bar, not in the rail itself. Always reachable without revealing the rail first.
  • Org switcher — the active org name with a chevron that opens the multi-org picker. Switch orgs without opening Settings.
  • Home / Search / Inbox nav — top-level shortcuts to the destinations you reach for most often. One click each, no detour through the sidebar. Inbox opens the comment-notification surface; Search opens ⌘K from anywhere.
  • Agents nav — a one-click jump to your agents list, the same place Settings → Agents lands. Surfaces here because Dock treats agents as first-class teammates, not a setting buried under preferences.

Native macOS look

The bar uses real NSVisualEffectView vibrancy — translucent blur of the desktop wallpaper behind the window, not a CSS approximation. Vibrancy appearance tracks the in-app Dock theme: light themes get the macOS light vibrancy material, dark + Graphite themes get the dark material, so the chrome always agrees with the canvas underneath.

Web parity

On trydock.ai (web) the same top bar renders without the traffic-light row + vibrancy — the browser owns that. Everything else (pin, org switcher, Home/Search/Inbox nav, Agents nav) is identical. The desktop bar adds the native chrome; the rest of the layout is shared.

Frequently asked questions

Why does Dock Desktop hide the macOS title bar?
The frosted top bar absorbs the title-bar row so the canvas can start higher. Traffic lights still work — they're inset into the bar's left edge.
Where is the org switcher in Dock Desktop?
Top bar, next to your avatar. Click the active org name to open the multi-org picker. Switching orgs reloads the sidebar to the chosen org's workspaces.
How do I get to my agents in Dock Desktop?
Click the Agents nav in the top bar — same destination as Settings → Agents, one fewer click.