Apple Announces macOS Sonoma With Desktop Widgets and More

[unknownx]

Still no Favicons for safari bookmarks, Will continue with Firefox until it comes, if ever

 

[hajime]

Hope it will be able to remember display settings for those with multi-display setup.

 

[Jimmy_Banks]

Welcome back widgets. I've missed you

 

[NufSaid]

Minor updates, small improvements.

Nice but nothing ground breaking.

 

[gpat]

Wow, I'm blown away. The return of Konfabulator widgets, Screen Savers are a back, they're going to focus on Mac gaming and we get iChat backgrounds in FaceTime.

Welcome back to the early 2000s.

Edit: OMG. Web Clips are back too! Mac OS X Tiger Sonoma?

The most comical fact is that Redmond will start their photocopiers even this time around.

 

[MrGimper]

I’m really trying to be positive, but this is a total washout so far. I still can’t believe web browser updates are a killer feature of a new OS version.

 

[memo90061]

Dashboard (macOS) - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

That's the first thing I thought about.

 

[LillDrutten]

Somna is the Swedish word to get to sleep when something is boring.

 

[Mimiron]

Member when Apple actually introduced "revolutionary features"? I member! Now the major feature of their OS is... wait for it... DESKTOP WIDGETS!

 

[MisterAndrew]

Which Macs make the cut?

 

[retta283]

reminds me of something... (fun fact: this was taken in Sonoma County.)

All we need is for Bill Brown to compose a new Mac startup sound and the transformation would be complete.

 

[Siliconguy]

If only there had been a way to run desktop widgets back ten years ago…

I dimly remember something called Dashboard from Mac OS 10.4? Or was it 10.6?

What I want to know is if the new version of Safari has Cookie Autodelete, or something similar. All cookies exterminated on leaving a webpage, unless that page is on a keeper list.

 

[Jimmy_Banks]

Minor updates, small improvements.

Nice but nothing ground breaking.

Don't worry, the initial release will still introduce 10,000 bugs.

 

[Princess Cake]

Remember the Dashboard app we said was obsolete? The one where you can put widgets on your desktop if you know a simple command? Well, NOW we have made it so you can put widgets on your desktop! Aren't we geniuses!!

 

[pugxiwawa]

Not a good start if first thing shown was screen saver.

 

[KoolAid-Drink]

I dimly remember something called Dashboard from Mac OS 10.4? Or was it 10.6?

What I want to know is if the new version of Safari has Cookie Autodelete, or something similar. All cookies exterminated on leaving a webpage, unless that page is on a keeper list.

Mac OS X v10.4 (Tiger).

 

[Siliconguy]

Doesn't have any new exciting feature. Just like iOS/iPad OS 17, they mainly added eye candy features for kids.

iPad's better handling of PDFs interests me. That is about all that caught my eye.

 

[elptdbi3lYI]

Good update, nothing got changed or broken this time.

 

[insoft.uk]

Is macOS starting to look a lot like Windows NTs XP & Vista, user loved XP and hated Vista’s Widgets now macOS seems to be trying to emulate Microsoft and Microsoft trying to copy macOS 🤣

 

[Admiral Fart]

I don't know what this says about the state of MacOS software, but I can't watch the livestream on Mac Safari right now. 😂 It was fine on iOS, then I tried switching to Mac and I just get a never-ending loading screen. It plays fine on Mac Firefox, however.

 

[padams35]

No news is good news.
No mac requirement changes! All Ventura models still supported*!

*New facetime features probably requires Apple Silicon.

Or not.

 

[Ceecephous]

Eyo, where-s the clipboard manager to quick insert things?

 

[TheLunaPark]

Suppose it’s somewhat expected with such mature OS’s but I’m falling asleep watching this haha. Don’t think there’s one thing that I’m going to use on a regular basis so far. Each to their own of course but yeah I’m bored.

 

[LeeW]

I really, really like this.

 

[DrV]

Sounds like the opposite of insomnia. Well, at least it's not enema.

No, I think it is a county next to Gomorra.