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Some gripes with Mavericks
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I think the widget market is on life support imo. Maybe I'm so insular, but I don't see this feature in dashboard being used much (other then istat pro and the weather widget) that there doesn't seem much of a market to bring them to the OSX desktop outright.
I think Apple mistepped in this when they originally offered widgets - they should have had them on the desktop but alas, that's ancient history
I do agree that Dashboard/Widgets seem to be dying out. And some widgets that break for various reasons (like the website they use gets changed) are not getting fixed anymore.
Another good widget is Delivery Status for tracking packages that you're expecting. There's also an iOS version now on the app store (which I haven't tried). Maybe it's time for a new roundup of useful widgets in the appropriate forum?
I use widgets all the time. You just don't understand them. They're by-hotkey mini-apps. Faster than complete desktop apps. If you don't like the lame ones that get preinstalled, look for others!
Putting them on desktop is stupid because it requires moving all current windows away, and they clash with the icons.
Why the hell do all Internet tutorials talk about sending dashboard widgets to desktop, and not the reverse -- sending desktop windows to the dashboard? That would totally solve the problem of stagnant dashboard widgets.
Putting them on desktop is stupid because it requires moving all current windows away, and they clash with the icons.
Why the hell do all Internet tutorials talk about sending dashboard widgets to desktop, and not the reverse -- sending desktop windows to the dashboard? That would totally solve the problem of stagnant dashboard widgets.
I don't understand myself.
Since Lion, in essence, you can now dedicate a whole freaking desktop to nothing but widgets. Completely free of other desktop clutter
Personally, I just keep it in my dock with a few simple things that have no business being a separate app.Tried it on my MBA running 10.9 DP6 and it's working great for the 'Weather' widget.
Will try on the rMBP when I get home later.
Thank you so much for posting this!!!!!
Erhm, I use the classic Leopard overlay view. I just hope it doesn't die, because it's really one of the features seldom or never seen in Windows PCs.I don't understand myself.
Since Lion, in essence, you can now dedicate a whole freaking desktop to nothing but widgets. Completely free of other desktop clutter
I've been using Delivery Status for OS X and iOS for what seems like years. One of the best app's I've purchased. Dashboard widget auto-detects copied tracking numbers in OS X to facilitate entries, syncs to all my Mac's and devices via Junecloud, up-to-date tracking supports Google Maps, etc. Delivery Status is about the only third party widget I use on a regular basis.
No, it does not. But if you catch one coming in via an "alert" you can. (If you grab it fast enough.
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Except that wasn't inspired by coverflow - it's an almost identical copy of Android multitasking.
Oh right, not familiar with that OS
. That does make it more sensible that it is coming to iOS.
Oh right, not familiar with that OS
Except there is a very important difference, on iOS it is horizontal and on Android it it vertical!
It looks to me like it's more directly inspired by webOS multitasking. I took a quick look at Android multitasking on my sad little work-issued Moto RAZR M and it is vertical but the views don't appear animated. I don't know if they will be animated in iOS7 but in webOS the app "cards" were animated...
Both Google (Android) and Apple (iOS) can get away with using features like this now that webOS is open source and largely abandoned by HP.
To remain somewhat on the original topic of this thread, I add that the only animated app previews I've seen on the desktop were in Windows 7 and this was always one of the first things I turned off on our work-issued machines which are limited to 32 bits by our archaic proprietary software load. This means we have only 3 GB usable out of the 8 GB "placebo RAM" in our machines.
Perhaps the animated app previews in Win 7 wouldn't suck so badly with sufficient memory.I've been using Mavericks since beta 1. And i have had none of the problems your having. Trying rebooting or reinstalling. FYI. i didn't even do a clean install. Sometimes i get errors with the UI but a simple reboot clears up any annoyances.
So far, the bugs I'm noticing *appear* to be all finder-related in one way or another. I'm using a 2011 MBP i7 with 16Gb RAM
1. Photoshop: Save As dialog box abruptly disappears after 2 seconds. I've determined this occurs if you have Cover Flow as the default view in that dialog box (ie. quickly switching it to another view solves it for awhile); on CS5, it renders the app unusable (grayed out) until you force quit, while on CC it just returns you, unsaved, to your work.
Also, sometimes, in Photoshop CC you can click menu buttons and get no response. clicking out of and back into the app usually solves it.
On both issues, Adobe says it's an OSX problem. Of course.
2. I have icons on desktop set to 'show info' (under view properties) so icons of image files have the pixel dimensions under them. In Mavericks, new icons or changed files lose that info, so you have to turn 'view info' off and then back on, to get it back. EACH TIME.
A few smaller ones as well...
1. Photoshop: Save As dialog box abruptly disappears after 2 seconds. I've determined this occurs if you have Cover Flow as the default view in that dialog box (ie. quickly switching it to another view solves it for awhile); on CS5, it renders the app unusable (grayed out) until you force quit, while on CC it just returns you, unsaved, to your work.
Also, sometimes, in Photoshop CC you can click menu buttons and get no response. clicking out of and back into the app usually solves it.
On both issues, Adobe says it's an OSX problem. Of course.
2. I have icons on desktop set to 'show info' (under view properties) so icons of image files have the pixel dimensions under them. In Mavericks, new icons or changed files lose that info, so you have to turn 'view info' off and then back on, to get it back. EACH TIME.
A few smaller ones as well...
It looks to me like it's more directly inspired by webOS multitasking. I took a quick look at Android multitasking on my sad little work-issued Moto RAZR M and it is vertical but the views don't appear animated. I don't know if they will be animated in iOS7 but in webOS the app "cards" were animated...
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Both Google (Android) and Apple (iOS) can get away with using features like this now that webOS is open source and largely abandoned by HP.
To remain somewhat on the original topic of this thread, I add that the only animated app previews I've seen on the desktop were in Windows 7 and this was always one of the first things I turned off on our work-issued machines which are limited to 32 bits by our archaic proprietary software load. This means we have only 3 GB usable out of the 8 GB "placebo RAM" in our machines.
I still have my old Palm Pre and I commented on the resemblance to webOS first thing! LOL