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Is the Dashboard still alive in macOS Sierra?
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99% of my students get a macbook just so they have a computer with an apple logo when they go to the coffee shop.
Notification Centre is such a poor replacement for Dashboard. I still live in hope that one day it will be resurrected and modernised, alas the chances of that seem very slim.
Yeah, because Apple's been hiding and burying it for quite a while now. It's potentially much more useful than that little strip of real estate for Notification Center widgets.
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Hoping there will be a third-party replacement if/when Apple kills it. Notification Center is just garbage by comparison.
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I had to think for a minute to figure out what "background" you all were talking about. I've always used Dashboard in the much more fluid HUD overlay mode instead of the weirdly disruptive "as a space" mode that jerks you away from whatever you were working on.
I have no idea why that option even exists, frankly, and I think it's one of the things that keeps people from using Dashboard -- that and the loss of the keyboard shortcut in favor of the utterly useless "Launchpad" and the fact that Apple never developed an ecosystem for paid widgets...
Anything that was introduced post-SL has always been useless...
I totally agree on every word you wrote! I use Dashboard continuously, I have the old and beautiful iStat nano, an URL shrinker, the contacts finder, and the converter. I really don't know how it could be better than this... Every time I need to take a fast note I simply launch Dashboard (bottom left corner, with active corners) and, at a glance, I have everything I need; and there's no need to even leave a fullscreen application, Dashboard simply runs over it.
Apple, don't you dare removing it! Delete notification widgets instead... They are useless, pointless and even a Windows gadgets copy...!!! Steve, come back!!!
I think this thread proves Apple should make supporting the Dashboard in 10.12 and beyond their highest priority.
Funny, I use Dashboard more than the NC. I never even notice the NC widgets, I only use it for notifications.
I really love Dashboard and have done ever since it was a marquee feature of 10.4 Tiger. (Man, Tiger was really the first release of OS X that I loved, that I thought could hold its own against Windows). I have a few different things on there, but what I find particularly useful is the ability to have the sticky notes arranged in a spatial manner that my brain finds it easy to remember where each particular piece of information is stashed.
There's a major regression in Dashboard in that you don't get the ripple effect what adding new widgets to the Dashboard web page.
Haha - yes, I miss the ripple effect also. My nephew and I used to use it as a reliable indicator as to how fast a given Macintosh (or Hackintosh, haha) was at the time. It was hella cool.
I heard some idle speculation at one point that iOS apps might eventually find a home in the Dashboard. That would probably have been a weird fit in regard to touch vs. mouse interface -- but still it would've been great to see a full-fledged Dashboard app store [sigh].
Indeed it would be a wonderful idea, the best integration with the system I can imagine. I always thought the same thing but as an evolution of Continuity. Imagine your dashboard becoming the real springboard of your iPhone, a sort of airplay mirroring as it is used in Carplay: it would be amazing.
Damn kids these days have no respect for the Dashboard. Back in my day we used to pay $25 to run widgets in Konfabulator.
Not sure what point you're making.
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It doesn't make any sense why Apple would de-focus from such a prominent feature of the Mac as dashboard. It's in the Mac's DNA now so it would be criminal to leave it yo decay through bit rot.
Just goes to show how different people's use scenarios are. To me, Dashboard is perhaps the single feature I use most when I'm sitting in front of my iMac.
Consider this one fact that is just indispensable and incomparable: with ONE click, or ONE motion I can invoke Dashboard instantly. I don't have to LAUNCH anything. There are no bounces and no spinning balls like when I launch an application. Click one button on my mouse (as I have it configured) - or hit the corner of the screen - and BOOM, there is Dashboard in all its glory, pretty much instantaneously. NOTHING compares to that speed.
And look at the riches! I have a Calculator on Dashboard I can use instantly. If I tried to launch the OS X calculator from the dock, it would bounce before it appeared. Dashboard is instant: BOOM, my calculator. Same for all the little widgets I use constantly: Converter, DeliveryStatus (to check on my packages), iStatPro (to check on various computer related data such as hard drive space in various external drives, temperature, network activity, memory etc., etc.,), Weather, Calendar, Contacts, and as another user said Notes (in my case k-notes), which are arranged with various pieces of info, I have instant access to, Clock/Timer, and a whole bunch others.
I mean, I use these widgets ALL THE TIME. I constantly check this or that, and I love having it all displayed across the screen in familiar positions, all invoked SUPER FAST by one single click of the keyboard or mouse or flick of the mouse.
It's unbeatable for speed and convenience.
I hate to imagine what a massive drop in quality of experience it would be for Apple to get rid of Dashboard.
Can anyone point out for me what else is MORE convenient than Dashboard widgets instantly invoked? Certainly not any apps that are launched, which feel positively medieval. It's faster than launching any iOS apps on the iPhone/iPad/iTouch or what not. It's the fastest most convenient thing ever. HANDS DOWN.
DASHBOARD FOR THE WIN!!!!!!
Consider this one fact that is just indispensable and incomparable: with ONE click, or ONE motion I can invoke Dashboard instantly. I don't have to LAUNCH anything. There are no bounces and no spinning balls like when I launch an application. Click one button on my mouse (as I have it configured) - or hit the corner of the screen - and BOOM, there is Dashboard in all its glory, pretty much instantaneously. NOTHING compares to that speed.
And look at the riches! I have a Calculator on Dashboard I can use instantly. If I tried to launch the OS X calculator from the dock, it would bounce before it appeared. Dashboard is instant: BOOM, my calculator. Same for all the little widgets I use constantly: Converter, DeliveryStatus (to check on my packages), iStatPro (to check on various computer related data such as hard drive space in various external drives, temperature, network activity, memory etc., etc.,), Weather, Calendar, Contacts, and as another user said Notes (in my case k-notes), which are arranged with various pieces of info, I have instant access to, Clock/Timer, and a whole bunch others.
I mean, I use these widgets ALL THE TIME. I constantly check this or that, and I love having it all displayed across the screen in familiar positions, all invoked SUPER FAST by one single click of the keyboard or mouse or flick of the mouse.
It's unbeatable for speed and convenience.
I hate to imagine what a massive drop in quality of experience it would be for Apple to get rid of Dashboard.
Can anyone point out for me what else is MORE convenient than Dashboard widgets instantly invoked? Certainly not any apps that are launched, which feel positively medieval. It's faster than launching any iOS apps on the iPhone/iPad/iTouch or what not. It's the fastest most convenient thing ever. HANDS DOWN.
DASHBOARD FOR THE WIN!!!!!!
I could not have said this better. Agree 100%. Notification center is useless (and a ripoff of Windows "functionality").
Why do you say Windows ripoff? OS X Mountain Lion had it a month before Windows 8 released and iOS had it one year longer than both.
Ok? OS X has had widgets since 2005. Windows didn't have it until they copied Apple in Windows Vista.
I know this perfectly. What we were discussing was that the "new" notification widgets are similar to windows gadgets (so they are horrible and unuseful), and nobody likes them or find them more useful than Dashboard.
Dashboard is perfect.
The day they remove Dashboard is the day I leave the Mac platform.
I'm aware dude, I was talking about why he said Windows Ripoff when we were talking about Notification Center, that iOS had a year before and OS X one month before windows 8 came out.
Agree. There will be millions of Mac users who refuse to ungrade when Dashboard is killed.