From: David M. Ensteness (denstene_at_mac.com)
Date: Sat May 14 2005 - 11:37:45 PDT
Nah, I wasn't trying to say it was a stupid idea. I guess I am ...
hesitant about widgets. They seem to be the new craptacular
shareware. Everyone makes about 40 of them and about 5 are useful.
There is a spell checker widget ya know? You can cut and paste text
into it to spell check it.
I guess its that sort of thing that makes no sense to me. There is
now a global dictionary and thesaurus, both of which are accessible
via keyboard cmds, widgets, and an application. Spell checking is a
system wide service. Yet someone thought - hey we really need a
widget for that.
Thats all, not blasting it, just thinking, toss an alias in my dock
or make a widget?
David
PS
And regarding your PS - YES, and it makes my brain go soft.
On May 14, 2005, at 1:30 PM, Martin Joseph wrote:
>> Not sure that I see the benefit of this?
>>
> Don't know that there is any benefit to it really, other then the one
> click accessibility?
> I just started playing with tiger yesterday, so it's still new to me.
> It just feels like having the Newton there on the Widgets screen would
> be slick....
>
> Maybe I am being stupid.
> Marty
>
> PS It sure looks to me like they have concreted over the place where
> they buried the Mac GUI guidelines...
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