[X4U] Dashboard needs better widget installation mechanism.

[Birgit Rhoads]

Is there a way to make the widgets on the shelf a smaller size?  Mine  
are really large.

Birgit Rhoads
Hudson Oh
wdlnd at adelphia.net
http://www.woodlandpwc.com

On May 8, 2005, at 4:04 AM, Jim MacCormaic wrote:

> On 8 May 2005, at 06:14 am, Jim Warthman wrote:
>
>
>> But the downloaded files weren't on my desktop like they should  
>> have been. I searched for the
>> file, and lo and behold, the widgets were in the ~Library/Widgets/  
>> folder!
>>
>
> A simpler way to find the location of files downloaded with Safari  
> is to use the little magnifying glass icon in Safari's Downloads  
> window. This simple expedient taught me the location for Dashboard  
> widgets with the first one I added.
>
> Mind you, the reason I resorted to this expedient was because my  
> downloaded widget had not shown up on the Dashboard shelf. To my  
> mind this is of more concern than the cases where widgets are not  
> automatically installed. I've seen others speak of re-launching the  
> Dock to refresh the shelf, but I've found that the best approach  
> (for now, at least) if a new widget does not appear on the shelf in  
> the expected alphabetical segment is to scroll out of and back into  
> that segment.
>
>
> Jim MacCormaic
> Dublin, Ireland
>
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