Comments on: I know what Dashboard is for! http://dannynovo.com/2006/05/25/i-know-what-dashboard-is-for/ is opinionated Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:44:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1-alpha By: Danny http://dannynovo.com/2006/05/25/i-know-what-dashboard-is-for/comment-page-1/#comment-763 Danny Fri, 26 May 2006 02:37:44 +0000 http://dannynovo.com/wordpress/?p=202#comment-763 <p>It would be news to me, too. This post is pure speculation, with a veneer of confidence to get people talking.</p> <p>I've always felt Dashboard took up too many resources, and the really useful stuff (like the weather) was still a click or a mouse flick away. If it's that important, I want it in my menu bar (like weatherman).</p> <p>Thereis no doubt that most dashboard widgets are pretty, but I don't get the metaphor. Some items are persistent, some require you to enter a query, some provide useful information, some provide a time-wasting function. It seemed so... haphazard for the new Apple. But if, and I say if, Apple plans for this layer to be an interface layer for a thin client, then this broad set of capabilities/broad lack of focus makes sense.</p> <p>So that's what I think.</p> It would be news to me, too. This post is pure speculation, with a veneer of confidence to get people talking.

I've always felt Dashboard took up too many resources, and the really useful stuff (like the weather) was still a click or a mouse flick away. If it's that important, I want it in my menu bar (like weatherman).

Thereis no doubt that most dashboard widgets are pretty, but I don't get the metaphor. Some items are persistent, some require you to enter a query, some provide useful information, some provide a time-wasting function. It seemed so... haphazard for the new Apple. But if, and I say if, Apple plans for this layer to be an interface layer for a thin client, then this broad set of capabilities/broad lack of focus makes sense.

So that's what I think.

]]> By: David Rubright http://dannynovo.com/2006/05/25/i-know-what-dashboard-is-for/comment-page-1/#comment-762 David Rubright Fri, 26 May 2006 01:44:01 +0000 http://dannynovo.com/wordpress/?p=202#comment-762 <p>I guess I have a more positive view on widgets. I have a hot corner that calls up the Dashboard. I can pull up weather radar in a hurry.THere are a couple gallery sites that give you a random art piece on the dash board. I use couch potato to see what is on satelite networks. Another widget play guitar cords. Another a rift of blues per day.</p> <p>I guess I am dispointed that there aren't more widgets.</p> <p>It was news to me that the Dashboard relates to future thin clients like cellphone and the ipod.</p> I guess I have a more positive view on widgets. I have a hot corner that calls up the Dashboard. I can pull up weather radar in a hurry.THere are a couple gallery sites that give you a random art piece on the dash board. I use couch potato to see what is on satelite networks. Another widget play guitar cords. Another a rift of blues per day.

I guess I am dispointed that there aren't more widgets.

It was news to me that the Dashboard relates to future thin clients like cellphone and the ipod.

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