Not a huge change, but we just noticed that in OS X Mountain Lion, Apple has changed the way adding widgets in Dashboard works to be more akin to Launchpad, with a full screen of equally spaced widgets being selectable instead of Lion’s approach, which puts available widgets at the bottom edge of the display.
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9 responses to “Dashboard’s Widgets Are More Like Launchpad In OS X Mountain Lion”
Maybe they will actually keep Dashboard around for a while?
I don’t like the mac widgets, i believe that this is not developers fault but they aren’t well design and they have a lot of limitations (few exceptions)
Nonsense. Be more specific.
 I love widgets, I don’t know why nobody uses those?! (recent poll in macdailynews). I use them everyday, notes, unit converter (money, pound and kilos etc), weather, calculator calendar etc. What people use for those task if not dashboard?Â
I’m having a stupid day. How do you remove a widget from the dashboard once it’s activated?
The little x don’t show up anymore. WTF
Move the cursor over to whichever widget you wish to remove, then press Option. The x should pop up.
Or press the negative button on the bottom left to bring up delete buttons for all the widgets.
When you have Dashboard disabled as a space (so it’s an overlay instead, like in pre-Lion OS X versions), you can’t add or remove widgets anymore (see attached screenie).Â
Hopefully just an oversight…
PEMDAS, a widget that is always at the top of the suggested actually doesn’t do math correctly. I noticed I wasn’t getting physics problems right when I used it but when I used my phone, it worked out correctly. Yes, thats a developer problem, but it goes to show you that Apple doesn’t love it as much as its other app repositories.
Hit the “alt” key and then it appears. It was always that way.