Talk:Dashboard (software)
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[edit] F12 key
It's unclear to me what happens when you press F12. Do all of your accessories all pop up, or can you pick which one you want to use right now? In older terminology, you would build an application out of "widgets", but here, widgets seem to be what you end up with at the end of the construction process. Is this usage accurate? -- Beland 01:47, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
when you press the key that activates dashboard, all of your currently open widgets pop up (see screenshot) and you also have the ability to press the + shaped button on the bottom left hand corner to change which widgets are open. Sorta hard to explain, but really, here. Consider each widget its separate little application. When you press F12 or whatever key that opens Dashboard, what comes up is a screen with all of the open widgets, with an option to open new ones and close the already open ones. That's sorta my best effort...don't know how to explain it better..
and widgets are their own little pseudo-application. its the end result of a bunch of javascript/css/html/objective-c or whatever else you use put together.
and also, isn't dashboard the name of another application for GNOME or something...the predecessor to Beagle search tool?
Applegoddess 1 July 2005 22:11 (UTC)
- I've got a newly installed copy of Tiger and F12 absolutely does *not* pop up Dashboard. I have to press Fn + F12 to get it to pop up. Richard W.M. Jones 19:39, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
What mac/keyboard do you have? -falcoboy7
- iBook G4 with a UK keyboard. Richard W.M. Jones 09:26, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
Works on the intel imac..
[edit] Two Dashboard projects
Applegoddess, yeah. The linux program Dashboard provides live-updated stuff related to what you are currently doing. In keeping with Wikipedia's NPoV, I think that it would be best to give neither the title Dashboard_(software). Perhaps this could become a disambiguation page, or redirect to Dashboard_(Mac_OS_X) (or whatever the appropriate title is).
It's not exactly fair to say Dashboard was the predeccessor to Beagle — Beagle sprang out of Dashboard, but it serves a different prupose and (iirc/afaik) Dashboard is still under active development. — Pandion auk 01:26, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Other widget engines
Is this section really necessary? --huwr 11:25, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Add another image?
I uploaded an image for use on the Calculator.app article. What about adding the image to this article, as a "closer up" view of a widget? --BDWill Talk Contribs 09:27, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
- Well, as no one responded, I went and added a picture of the Calculator widget.
[edit] Folklore Citation?
Sure, we've pointed out that they're Desk Accessories, but there's no clear connection between Desk Accessories and the current day Dashboard widgets mentioned anywhere in the article. As such, I don't feel it's a valid reference. Thoughts? [UNSIGNED]
I totally agree. It's been an ongoing debate, and there's no conclusive evidence that Dashboard is based on Desk Accessories. Kestrel 17:34, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
- If there are no objections, I'm going to change the wording on the statement and remove the citation. Yonis 23:40, 26 July 2006 (PST)
[edit] "...Total Rip off..."?
In the first paragraph, it ends with being "a total rip off of Konfabulator". Isn't that sentence a little immature (no offense on the person who wrote that sentence)? Try to change the phrase and give evidence on why that is so. Sr13 06:40, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
