Here's another mockup showing the overflow option for the program bar, and the on the fly resize of the left and right bars based on how many icons are present in the system tray (right bar). In this setup, the system tray is designed to expand left (or contract right) as needed based on the number of icons in the system tray, just like the current one does. Now, obviously I repeated a few things in the system tray in this example, but it's done to show what would happen if you were to ever max out the full allowed width of the system tray, which is 65-70% of the screen. (a full 75% could be gained if slightly smaller icons were used) Once it hits that point, it will go no further. Any system tray icon that can't fit into the tray after that just won't be displayed.

The program bar (left bar) has an option to farm out any excess icons it can't display into a drop down menu, denoted by the blue down arrow. If you are anywhere other than the program menu or the desktop, the red "close" box will still be there. If you're in a program, as displayed in the example, it will appear to the right of the program overflow menu in it's normal place on the programs bar.

The "programs" icon is allowed to spill over into the overflow menu because it's a actually a module so clicking it will merely bring up the scrolling programs screen rather than a traditional menu, thus it doesn't need to be treated special like the remaining 3 items in the bar which are actually menus. Hence why I left them there. They *could* be farmed out, but A) that gets a bit messy, and B) why in God's name would you actually have that many systray items active at one time!?

Comments welcome as usual.