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Here's How Interactive Widgets Work in macOS Sonoma

jonnysods said:
Nice! So you're running the beta? I really want to try the public beta but I'm afraid to on my main machine as I count on it so much....
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I was but had to move back to Ventura. If you want to try it out, put it in a separate partition and run it from there.
 
gwhizkids said:
I actually had different widgets sets running on my external monitor and my desktop.
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I've just tested it, as I don't usually connect my monitor to my MBA, and you're correct. I edited my post above. Thanks! I'm playing with widget layout again, now 🙂
 
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I like the idea in theory, but I never see my desktop. I *think* they’ll remain more useful to me in the notifications window.
 
Is there a Files widget? I know I can do this with a finder window, but if they implement a Sonoma enhanced version of of Files to represent a finder window, that would be cool too.
 
Rossik said:
Back in Dashboard days, there was even a line of terminal code or perhaps a setting in the Onyx app or such where you then hold on to a widget while closing dashboard and it would remain on the desktop.
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Yes, and it would cause weird instabilty.
 
Am I the only one who thinks that the old dashboard has been the best implementation so far? Using the dashboard you could have both a clean desktop and usable widgets. The current implementation allows you to use widgets, but you pay that with an incredibly messy desktop.
 
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lordthistle said:
Am I the only one who thinks that the old dashboard has been the best implementation so far? Using the dashboard you could have both a clean desktop and usable widgets. The current implementation allows you to use widgets, but you pay that with an incredibly messy desktop.
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I’m guessing that you can have separate desktops (spaces) with their own widgets if you choose.
 
Am I going a bit daft or is there really no music widget. They've got a podcast one, but I still have to use the control centre for songs
 
lordthistle said:
Am I the only one who thinks that the old dashboard has been the best implementation so far? Using the dashboard you could have both a clean desktop and usable widgets. The current implementation allows you to use widgets, but you pay that with an incredibly messy desktop.
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No. Podcasters Jason Snell and Stephen Hackett both agree with you.
 
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steve09090 said:
I’m guessing that you can have separate desktops (spaces) with their own widgets if you choose.
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I liked DashBoard, too. It was clean and out of the way when you didn't want it, and right there when you did. Having a separate space is a kind of compromise, but still not as clean as a keystroke to see all your widgets (and many of those widgets in Dashboard were interactive from the get-go...I used to have a nifty subnet calculator that I could get to from anywhere).
 
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lordthistle said:
Am I the only one who thinks that the old dashboard has been the best implementation so far? Using the dashboard you could have both a clean desktop and usable widgets. The current implementation allows you to use widgets, but you pay that with an incredibly messy desktop.
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You're wrong! Tim knows well what's better for u!
 
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