Talk:Dashboard (macOS)

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)
 * I can confirm this. I have an iBook G3 (US keyboard) and I have to press fn+F12 to bring up Dashboard. For this reason I have assigned F8 for this. - Thanks, Hoshie | 05:43, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Works on the intel imac.. '''

Two Dashboard projects
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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 &mdash; Beagle sprang out of Dashboard, but it serves a different prupose and (iirc/afaik) Dashboard is still under active development. &mdash; Pandion auk 01:26, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Other widget engines
Is this section really necessary? --huwr 11:25, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

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.
 * --BDWill Talk Contribs 14:45, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

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)

"...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)

Fair use rationale for Image:Dashboard Icon.png
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Widgets on the Desktop?
Should the section Widgets on the desktop be removed? It seems to be more of a how-to than an encyclopedia section. Perhaps it would be best to discuss that software exists to allow this to happen, but not discuss the specifics.
 * I don't think it is encyclopedic or notable either. Since the vast majority of people who use dashboard are not going to do this, I don't think it should be brought up at all. 63.80.51.227 (talk) 04:46, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

On MacBook?
If so, how can I dowload it?

Lunakeet

Migration to a Dashboard Framework.
Hi I have a project built on Websphere Portlet Factory and I want to migrate it into Dashboard Framework. Please guide.

Thanks Prashant —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.18.104.1 (talk) 11:43, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Migration to a Dashboard Framework.
Hi I have a project built on Websphere Portlet Factory and I want to migrate it into Dashboard Framework. Please guide.

Thanks Prashant —Preceding unsigned comment added by Go2prashant (talk • contribs) 11:44, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

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Title Disambiguation
I added a disambiguation tag to this article, but I really think it should be renamed. "Dashboard (software)" is a category that encompases many products from many companies. The situation is as if "Facial tissue" were a redirect to Kleenex! Ningauble (talk) 15:45, 7 August 2008 (UTC)


 * I agree with this, I think it needs to be something like Dashboard (Macintosh Software). Many other software 'dashboards' exist, its quite a generic term.  Jwoodger (talk) 06:04, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

Comparison with Konfabulator
All the content of this section was in "Graphics" which is an obvious nonsense. Anyway, the content of the new section, in my opinion, is nonsensical per se, and deserves deletion. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.65.236.40 (talk) 14:56, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

dasbord are stuped your school can see everything you do, they are so stuped you have a cam so they can see what your doing at anytime even if your not on iphoto or photobooth!! they block everything from kids but do you think they block the teatchers no!! idc if they are adults block your self!! you say be fair to eveyone!! when your not!! ya school is so stuped!! i cant wait till i get homeschooled in 6th grade!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.11.225.160 (talk) 00:10, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: procedural close, please discuss at Talk:Calendar (Mac OS) &mdash;innotata 02:06, 23 September 2014 (UTC)

Dashboard (Mac OS) → Dashboard (OS X) – OS X is the current, official and widely-known name for the operating system. Mac OS is inappropriate as it was never actually a part of Classic Mac OS. I'm suggesting a move for this and a couple of other OS X-only applications on the same principle. Blythwood (talk) 02:49, 9 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Speedy procedural close and re-do all as a multiple move. Dicklyon (talk) 06:18, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

Move discussion in progress
There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Calendar (Mac OS) which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RMCD bot 02:14, 23 September 2014 (UTC)