Dashboard question

Dashboard is designed to 'overlay' over the other apps/windows in the background.

Its meant to be non-distracting, that why is it user-activated, and its for that same reason other apps are blanked out, so not to distract the user when using Dashboard.

Its a convenient tool to check weather, scores, stocks, email and take notes on the fly, without the inconvenience of opening up new memory-hungry app's etc.

Its not meant to run alongside other app's as you wish to do. (Eventhough Dashboard is always 'running' - its in the background, you just press F12 to 'activate' it)

Hope that helps

 

You can keep widgets on-screen at all times.

Follow the following steps:

This allows you to keep a widget on screen at all times even when Dashboard is not shown. To enable Development Mode:

- Type the following in Terminal: defaults write com.apple.dashboard devmode YES

- Logout/login (or restart) to reload Dashboard with the new setting

- Load your widget into Dashboard

- Drag your widget a short distance; do not release the mouse

- With the mouse still held down, hide Dashboard; your widget should now be hovering over the desktop


http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2005/tn2139.html#TNTAG13



Hope this helps