Control Strip

An attempt was made at an open source reimplementation of the Control Strip for OS X, but it never received much developer traction and the last release is dated 27 October 2000.

The Control Strip always anchors itself to the closest vertical screen edge (left or right,) but can be freely moved up and down both sides of any display by the user.

By default, the rightmost portion of the Touch Bar displays a subset of system controls previously available on the keyboard's function keys.

For example, Conflict Catcher included a Control Strip module to switch extension sets, while DAVE used one to toggle SMB/NetBIOS networking.

Like the System Trays of other OSs, this was often abused to insert a flotsam module that merely launched and quit a given application.