Not everyone works as they are intended to. Then again, both of us could have been unlucky in trying to use dashboard-widgets that are incompatible with plamsa. After hitting finish, you should only need to bring up the "Add widget" dialogue again to find it. In fact, you shouldn't need to do either. Note: you shouldn't need to both use the logout/login procedure as well as the "kbuildsycoca4 -noincremental" method (the message you get in the terminal is exactly what you should be getting). I got the same result as you did (using 4.3.0 final), but I have been successful before so it _might_ have broken since I last used it. I hadn't really tried since the feature was introduced, but I did just now. That's indeed the way it should be installed. I assume you chose the "Dashboard: Mac OS X Widget" entry in the window. I can click "Finish", but not "Next", and the widget doesn't appear in the list of installed widgets. Don’t forget to make widgets of those sections of the web that you visit often and the information you seek will now be just one click away.Merkri wrote:I go to the "Install Widget from Local File." dialog, select a zip archive, and then nothing happens. It was introduced more than 10 years in version 10. I also live close to the movie theaters and the widget I created from google’s movie listing for the local theater has been useful a number of times. There is no doubt that many Mac users will remember the Dashboard and its widgets. I us it to check sports scores and news information and simply clicking the Dashboard keyboard function to get updates on game scores saves me the time of browsing to the site itself to check the score. Personally, I never used Dashboard before the ability to created widgets of information that I often access. Clicking this will allow you to select a section of the current website you’re viewing and then clicking the “add” button that will appear to place the selected portion of the website on your dashboard widget.ĭashboard was something added in previous versions of OS X but not often used by many Mac owners. You may have noticed a new button in Safari that includes a dotted square line and a pair of scissors. One of the many great features of Apple’s new OS X 10.5 Leopard that gets overlooked or under used is the ability to quickly and easily create custom dashboard widgets of areas of websites that you visit often or check for important information.
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