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Join Date: Jan 2004
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It seems that many widgets are long bars that then expand into rectangular areas. While space-efficient, I don't like the idea of widgets overlapping each other. Do most of you have your widgets spread out so that they don't overlap, or does this not matter to you? I don't know why I'm curious, but I am.
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Spread out nice and neat.
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Originally Posted by ManOfSteal
Spread out nice and neat.
Which means that you also have a lot of blank space when the widgets aren't expanded, right?
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"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world." -Archimedes
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Originally Posted by tavilach
Which means that you also have a lot of blank space when the widgets aren't expanded, right?
The screen is pretty full actually, but some blank space is present.
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Join Date: Aug 2002
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The ones that I have permanently open: Flip Clock, iCal Events, Weather; DashOpener, iTunes, and now Calculator, are neatly and non-overlappingly laid out on the right and left (separated by the semicolon in the list) of the screen. DashOpener opens widgets in the middle of the screen so conveniently this is left free for anything else I might want. On a 12" screen some 3rd party widgets are a bit much, mainly the games ones, but for irregular usage they're mainly okay, and with DashOpener to avoid the nasty ripple, I'm still enjoying it  .
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Join Date: Jan 2001
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For some reason my widgets keep drifting about, Apple's weather widget is the worst culprit.
So not much organisation here.
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What I would like to see in a future Dashboard update is some means to auto-tile my widgets rather than having to do it manually...
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Join Date: May 2005
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Originally Posted by JKT
What I would like to see in a future Dashboard update is some means to auto-tile my widgets rather than having to do it manually...
I agree... expose already does it, just incorporate expose into dashboard to do the tiling.
Right now mine are spaced out, seperated into 3 columns. Left, Center, Right. Left and Right have the nonresizing widgets. The center is for dictionary and a movie times widget that do resize.
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Join Date: Mar 2001
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If you edit com.apple.dashboard.plist you can see the x and y axis settings for each widget you have open. I have multiple weather and world clock widgets, so I positioned each where I wanted them, restarted the Dock (which restarts Dashboard), then edited the plist to make the sure the X axis was the same for each weather and world clock widget.
You can really get things lined up with a little patience. Afterwards, use Get Info to lock the .plist file so that Dashboard can't change it again. After that, your widgets will stay where you put them...
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Join Date: Jul 2005
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Actually, this bothered me too when I first started Dashboard (only for a few minutes, though). I now leave the expanding widgets (Dictionary, Wikipedia, Google Maps, and PearLyrics) across the bottom, with enough room for them to open. No gaps, and there's even room for the widget bar to pop up below them.
It's also nice having a nice big monitor. Helps a lot with the widget positioning. =)
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