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However, I think Apple has backed off the idea of needing to turn the iPad and Mac into each other, at least from a user interface standpoint. A single place to get info from your widgets and launch a few favorite apps would be better than what we have now. I thought about the Launchpad angle for a while, and I can see how turning it into a more iPad-like experience would be neat. Alternative would be massively improving Launchpad to work much more like SpringBoard, and allow you to set that in place of your desktop. Widgets need a permanent home in the Mac UI, not hidden off in a Notification Center nobody looks at anyway. Update: Steve Troughton-Smith tweeted this in reply to my post: Bringing back Dashboard is an obvious solution here, and I’d love to see it make a return. Anything older is hidden behind a button, regardless of how many widgets you may have in the lower section of the Notification Center column:Īpple needs to rethink this and let this new class of widgets 2 breathe, being able to use the entire screen like the widgets of yore could.
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Even on a Pro Display XDR, you get three visible notifications. Sadly, they all got stuffed into the slide-out Notification Center user interface:
Just one year after Catalina killed Dashboard, Apple started allowing developers to bring their iOS widgets over to the Mac in macOS Big Sur. 1Īpple killed off Dashboard at exactly the wrong time.
The party had packed up years earlier, leaving just a small percentage of users still relying on the feature. By the time Apple finally pulled the plug on Dashboard in macOS Catalina, most of the widgets that once graced this corner of the OS had died off. Keyboards that once shipped with a dedicated Dashboard shortcut were slowly phased out. The design of Dashboard got toned down over time, and eventually it wasn’t even enabled by default on clean macOS installations. The original design of Dashboard was very of its time. They were present when you needed them, and disappeared when you didn’t. Jobs pitched widgets as mini-apps that let you look up a quick bit of information without ruining your workflow or train of thought. Maintain iChat Conversations & Train of Thought by Showing Last Messages.
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I was insanely jealous of him for about 72 hours after we both installed Tiger in our dorm room.) Mac OS X 10.6.7 Update is Available for Download. However, college roommate’s aluminum PowerBook could do it without breaking a sweat. (My Titanium PowerBook’s GPU couldn’t render the water ripple effect that played when a new widget was added to Dashboard. Adding new ones could be done with a click of the mouse. While not as flashy or important as Tiger’s keystone feature, Spotlight, Dashboard still enjoyed a big push from Jobs on stage.Ī user could tap a keyboard shortcut or visit a hot corner and Dashboard would activate, dimming the screen and flying in widgets. A few years ago, I wrote about the now-dead Dashboard, which was was in macOS for a long, long time:
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