Dashboard (was: [OT] Mac Office Software)

[David Cantrell]

On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 05:21:12PM +0100, Nic Gibson wrote:

> If those widgets sat quietly on my desktop in some way rather than  
> appearing in an overlay when I specifically request them, it might be  
> useful.

Quite.  I fail to see the point of them, when I can just as easily run a
clock and a calculator application, or put a weather forecast in the
menu bar.  Apple even provide fairly easy ways of hiding them from view.

Unfortunately there is no way that I can see to completely disable
widgets, so occasionally a finger hits a stray key and that rubbish pops
up, and I have to think for a moment about how to get rid of it.

>          Now, exposé I like.

What, exactly, does it do that is so useful?

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