Posted on Tuesday 30 August 2005 - Popularity: 2%
This one’s for you Apple. The Dashboard is a great feature, but sooner or later you automatically run out of free space for additional widgets, especially on a “low-res” notebook screen. Some of us would really love to have additional space for new widgets and I’m sure one of the ideas below would do the job.
Tabs: Tabbed browsing is a great and widely used feature, the Dashboard could implement something very similar, just that Dashboard tabs would be stored and re-opened after a restart. Hey, maybe even let us use different background images for the different tabs.
Canvas: With a roll-canvas, you would have virtually unlimited space in one dimension. You could display a hand cursor on all non-occupied places to move the canvas or use a beautiful Dashboard slider. The first option would need a change in the way you leave the Dashboard, so maybe not a perfect solution.
I really hope to see something like that in one of the next Dashboard versions. It would definitely add a good dose of additional usefulness to the Dashboard.
Fredi
September 4th, 2005 at 10:35 am
It’s rather weird there aren’t yet applications to have different dashboards (with different key combinations) or tabbed dashboards but indeed it would be a great idea to extend the normal size on my ibook screen.