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Dashboard Feature Eliminated in macOS Catalina
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I honestly don’t see how that even relates to this topic. Safari has a useful purpose whereas the Dashboard feature never did.
It is the end of an era. There's not a lot of love for Widgets right now but there was a time that it and OS X Tiger scared the pants off of Microsoft. I remembered reading about it a while ago and the death of Widgets reminded me of it--
"Then, in June 2004, Steve Jobs announced that Apple was releasing its new operating system, called “Tiger.” And inside Microsoft, jaws dropped. Tiger did much of what was planned for Longhorn—except that it worked.
E-mails flew around Microsoft, expressing dismay about the quality of Tiger. To executives’ disbelief, it contained functional equivalents of Avalon and WinFS.
“It was f***g amazing,” wrote Lenn Pryor, part of the Longhorn team. “It is like I just got a free pass to Longhorn land today.”
Vic Gundotra, another member of the group, tried out Tiger. “Their Avalon competitor (core video, core image) was hot,” he wrote. “I have the cool widgets (dashboard) running on my MAC right now with all the effects [Jobs] showed on stage. I’ve had no crashes in 5 hours.”" -
from Microsoft's Lost Decade - Vanity Fair
It's a great article. Have a read about Ballmer throwing chairs against walls haha
People have an emotional attachment to Dashboard as there's nothing else like it. Browsers are plentiful.
Are you me? I check the dashboard frequently throughout the day because I use it mainly for delivers & countdowns as well. 5 years, 4 months, and 4 weeks until my student loans are paid off.
Honestly, feels like it doesn't make sense. The Dashboard utilities that I use are convenient, and I use them almost everyday. Feels like the end of an era, unfortunately.
yeah that and the calculator are the only things i use it for too, so i'm in the same position as you.
luckily there IS something for the calendar... it's called itsycal. adds an icon to your menu bar/system tray that drops down into a calendar that can be navigated with keyboard. can also set a keyboard shortcut to activate.
I use dashboard every time I’m using my macbook, what a shame to loose this great program. At the press of a button I had my calculator, weather for multiple cities around the world, time for multiple countries around the world, my post it notes, etc. I really loved using dashboard and will possibly stop at Mojave to keep being able to use both it and my 32bit apps.
Oh well.
Oh well.
Yeah but they gotta go with what most people want. And most people don't care and won't miss it.
Back then in the Windows ME / XP prior to SP2 age, you were considered lucky if your computer didn't crash in an hour. Windows XP was especially bad, just plugging in your computer to the LAN cable could infect it with all sorts of malware, automatically, yes, in seconds. The first thing to do at that time was to unplug the computer from LAN (or disconnect from WiFi if you're lucky to have WiFi), and to install all sorts of antivirus softwares / security updates (just download whatever patches needed from another computer and burn a CD/DVD to install offline...) in it. What an era.
Dashboard was good in the non-retina era. I loved it in my first iMac, you know, before the iPhone. After the iPhone the need to have those widgets on the computer has gone. At least after I installed iStat Menus.
Still rocking iStat nano on my Dashboard, can always tuck it aside when not needed...
Life is short. Always enjoy what you want (before it is taken away).
Don't use the widgets as there weren't too many and some lost function in recent years, but my dashboard is a big bulletin board full of sticky notes. With just a four-finger swipe I get access to information which I can organise as I like and of which much more is present than with the notes app without having the weird old and ugly notes on my working desktop. Sad!
