Future of Dashboard

[ErikGrim]

good luck going further than log(5)

That doesn't count as a quick calculation.

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Dashboard is a waste of space, oh yes. I thought about this just a few hours ago. And the lego style background in lion is awful, sure it's changeable but I don't mind doing it since I'm never using it anyway.

Then don't use it as a space.

 

[haravikk]

The new improvements in Mountain Lion for Dashboard seem to lend hope to it. I'd still have liked to see it default to being an overlay again, rather than a Space, as part of the usefulness of Dashboard is being able to arrange widgets around the edges, hit a key and have them overlaid upon what you're doing so you can quickly enter figures or text into the appropriate widget.

Casual users that aren't aware that Dashboard ever functioned differently are going to have trouble finding it as useful since they won't know to look for the option to change its behaviour.

Some exposure through the Mac App Store, and some extra javascript frameworks to make them more app-like would be great, as would some features to help people design better UI's for their widgets.

 

[Miharu]

When I first installed Lion, I was horrified that it took its own Space and thought "this is the end of Dashboard". Glad one could revert back to the overlay view. I'm really dependant on Dictionary, Converter and Translator widgets and wouldn't want to lose them. If they got rid of dashboard, I'd have to keep tabs open in a browser for similar websites and it wouldn't be anywhere near as quick.

 

[yliu]

Bumping this thread...

I really like the idea of making dashboard into something that runs iPhone/iPad apps. Otherwise, Dashboard is dead. From my experience, I barely use dashboard now. (I used to use Dashboard all the time Tiger)