Gaggle Boss

The Gaggle Boss is an indispensable part of the Gaggle. Most geese will automatically launch the Boss (in a minimized state) if it is not already running. Once started, the Boss often retreats into the background, providing the channel over which the geese communicate, but little used by the user. It looks like this (after three other geese have been started):

Plug-ins

The boss has a plugin architecture, so that programmers can easily add new tabs, and new capability. Examples include: annotation search, a clipboard, a jython interpreter, a place from which to launch geese.