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Ask HN: Does Mac OS X Yosemite Get Rid of Dashboard?

by tronium on 6/2/14, 9:42 PM with 4 comments

I'm very curious to know if there's any way of finding out if dashboard has finally disappeared from OSX, or more like merged with the new notification center. The latter would be my guess, considering they did refer to "widgets" that can be put there. It has been rumored that Apple will get rid of dashboard for awhile, but has that come to fruition?

  • by dlevine on 6/2/14, 10:55 PM

    From what I can tell, Apple doesn't usually announce when they get rid of something. It just kind of fades out gradually and disappears one day (remember Sherlock?). Apple hasn't talked about the dashboard in quite a while.

    It appears that Apple is adding widgets to the notifications bar in both iOS and OS X. Given that the two OSes are converging, and there is no iOS analog for the Dashboard, I'm guessing that the Dashboard is going away.

  • by nmolo on 6/3/14, 12:27 AM

    It still exists. [1] Unfortunately its the same and looks out of place.

    [1] http://www.superb.info/review-screenshots-os-x-yosemite/

  • by josephpmay on 6/3/14, 4:08 PM

    It's disabled by default but can be turned on in System Preferences

  • by gahish on 6/4/14, 6:54 AM

    i clicked the dashboard icon in launchpad and it got enabled and it looks exactly the same as mavericks