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Apple Disables Dashboard by Default in Latest OS X El Capitan Beta

Will miss the dictionary (though I know there are other options) and translator. Kill the Launchpad first says I.
 
I don't want it to go, I use multiple widgets everyday:

Organized. For a quick view of my calendars, list of next meetings, clocks of different cities
iStatPro: Real time view of all the important stats of my Mac
TunesText: To view and get lyrics for my music library
Unit Converter: I only have to use this when I visit the USA for non international units :v

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I use it occasionally. Weather (the one in Notification Center keeps screwing up my location but the one in Dashboard somehow is never wrong), Currency exchange and the infrequently used but very handy flight times app to keep track of family arrival/departure updates.
 
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I'm pretty sure that a fresh installation of Yosemite also deactivates the Dashboard. Is the story here that El Cap turns it off against the user's wishes?
 
dumastudetto said:
Nobody needs Dashboard anymore. There are much better technologies baked right into OS X that should meet everyones needs.
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Like what, Notification Center? Yeah, that thing is great, once you focus your attention on that little sliver of vertical screen space, grab your mouse and click on whichever tab you want, and then SCROLL DOWN to whatever you need to see. Brilliant stuff.

So much better than a very fast HUD with all manner of web snippets and apps that quickly appears on a huge new layer across however many monitors you have -- and then disappears with another keystroke.
 
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I still use it for one reason, but it's one I love: the Radar In Motion widget. All I have to do is swipe left and and boom, an up to date radar in real time. I absolutely love it. Plus, you can click the Weather Channel button in the bottom right to go directly to your local detailed weather forecast. I've never been able to trust the weather app in the notification center. Always seems to be a little off. But I really don't want to lose this setup.
 
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WTF losing dashboard would be a complete fail!! I use it 100 times a day to check weather, time, date, etc. It's one keyboard button perfect data access! Sliding widget filled sidebars or multiple spaces are a sad excuse for a dashboard replacement.
 
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iBlazed said:
Is your window a time portal to the future that tells you the weather for the next week? :eek:
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Is any weather forecasting service a time portal to the future that tells you the weather for the next week?

At best forecasters can be reasonably accurate in forecasts for maybe a couple to three days. Beyond that they may be able to to give a general pattern, but specific predictions become less and less reliable. While there is a bit of a seasonal pattern to what I do in my life, what I do day to day depends more on what I observe than what some boffin predicts……. Coming from a farming background and being an outdoors man by nature, I do have a fair idea of whet to expect.
 
Might have happened sooner than that - I did a fresh install of Yosemite on my Mac Mini about 4 weeks ago and it has dashboard disabled by default.

Perhaps it was disabled by default in one of the incremental Yosemite updates (without disabling it on systems where it was already enabled)
 
macduke said:
Every dashboard function I used to use is available now as a "Today" widget in notification center. However, I wish Apple would do this instead, or at least as an option: Make a blurred overlay just like Launchpad, and have it show two columns kinda like Notification Center on the iPad in iOS 9. On the left have your widgets, and on the right have your notifications. Perhaps widgets could take up 2/3 of the space since there is more space on the desktop, allowing for more complex widgets showing detail like weather radars and give more space for utilities such as calculators to offer advanced functions. This would further unify the design language between OS X and iOS while updating the somewhat clunky notification center.
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That sounds more like modernizing Dashboard to me, but either way, Notification Center as it stands now is a terrible substitute. Let's just hope that if they DO kill Dashboard, someone comes up with a good 3rd-party replacement.
 
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V.K. said:
It's not just that. Notification center is better than dashboard from the UI perspective. It doesn't take you out of the workflow and to a completely separate screen.
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Dashboard takes you even less out of your workflow since everything on your desktop stays as-is and is just quickly overlaid with a new layer. The worst thing they did was start this "treat Dashboard as a separate Space" garbage, which jerks you away from what you were working on. With that unchecked, Dashboard is quite non-disruptive.
 
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I still like using Dashboard. I do it as an overlay not a separate space.
I'm a little sad to see it down the road of depreciation but I understand most people probably don't use it (much).
 
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