So if I want to quickly search, or check a reference, I just throw my mouse to the top left corner and I can get access to calculator, translation, conversion widget, and dictionary/thesaurus. However, the Dashboard has one advantage over geeklets, is once activated they hover over the active window I was in. Geeklets have their place, and I agree with you totally about why they're great. What I mean is that it's hard to gauge the general use of Dashboard when the anti-dashers need to shit all over every Dashboard thread that comes up on this forum. Dashboard (like Launchpad) does bring out the nasty in people for some reason, because for whatever reason, the people who don't like Dashboard or Launchpad need to make it a point they hate it, and they don't use it, and therefore no one else should ever use it. I don't know how true it is that 'no one is really using it'. Geeklets usefully and beautifully provide additional functionality - there is, however, a learning curve. Each geeklet element - color, size, font, font shadow, etc, etc - they can all be completely controlled by the user so that they seamlessly become part of the desktop. No one is really using it, and lots of really great widgets are just dying - like RadarInMotion - I'm studying the atmospheric sciences so it's been super handy, but as things change 'net side, the dev is just letting it go, reducing this once fantastic widget into a half broken toy :-/Īlso, unlike the times of Konfabulator and its ilk (yahoo widgets now?), Geektool doesn't widget up/clutter the desktop - it imbeds itself, becomes part of the desktop. The problem with Dashboard is that it is languishing.
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