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Apple Confirms Dashboard is Going Away After 14 Years
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That reminds me, I must check my Control Strip to see which module is causing an extension conflict.
Dashboard was a me-too rip-off of Konfabulator (which was later acquired by Yahoo, just to die a slow and lonely death, exactly like Dashboard does now.
I like the relaxed approach in that presentation. Apple today is too rigid and polished in their presentations. The vibe in this presentation was of fun, but practical and well thought out. Apple today seems to not have that.
Quick access to a monthly view of the calendar to see what days fall where. Oh well. Fn+F12 is how I accessed it. Much faster than actually opening the calendar program.
I have NEVER used this, and only accidentally brought it up by hitting the wrong key.
All these eliminations of core services is necessary for the transition to ARM processors and a convergence of macOS and iOS. It won't be long until the dock is eliminated and eventually the finder in the next few itterations. Launchpad will probably replace the dock in the next macOS.
Try the (built in) World Clock in Notification Center's Today view. You can add multiple locations and it is one click away.
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Not sure how web apps (they ran entirely on webkit) that didn't need to be compiled depend on a processor. If they couldn't make Dashboard work on an ARM processor they're going to have a heck of a time displaying a website.
They're killing it because it basically was replaced with Notification Center and it is one less thing to have to maintain support for.
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All of these can be accomplished in Notification Center's Today view. Stocks and Weather are built in and I believe there is a free package tracking app that can be added.
I don't really use it any longer. Like some old t-shirts.
I had many old t-shirts adorned with text and images only a young person can convincingly wear. Years to collect, then one day I saw an old person in the mirror looking ridiculous.
Fortunately, I have no such attachment to Dashboard. The telemetry Apple collects showed most people ignored it. The masses have voted.
Spotlight does it. Keyboard shortcut for spotlight, then type "2 lbs in kg" or whatever.Bye old friend. I've used it nearly every day since Tiger, and when I read it was disappearing it was a little sad as I still remember the excitement back then during the Tiger keynote. I've moved a few things in to the notifications bar, but I'll miss Dashboard in its overlay mode. It would of been nice if they left it in the OS disabled by default for those of us that still used it daily
Any suggestions for a Notifications area replacement for the Unit Converter?
Count me in as a daily user. Even remapped my Launchpad (which is actually useless) key to pull up Dashboard like the old days.
IIRC, wasn't Dashboard almost a copy of the third-party Konfabulator? (Though, to be fair, the basic concept is like the Desk Accessories from System 6/7 days).
Hi guys, whilst it's very sad about Dashboard, you might all be very excited to learn about a hot new feature called Notification Centre which has been around a good while now and basically covers all the needs you've listed here. Apart from Stickies, but that's an included app that can live on your desktop anyways.
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Kind of like when a celebrity passes away, and you had no idea they were still alive, I totally forgot Dashboard even existed.
