konfabulator 2 is out
i downloaded it on my computer at home last night. certainly more configurable than it used to be, and apparently there are a lot more system hooks they've worked in for widget authors. it doesn't have all the visual oomph of dashboard effects (ripples, zoom fades, flips, etc.), but it feels way faster and allows me to set the level of appearance for each widget (desktop, konspose only, floating, etc) and transparency.
i haven't kicked terminal and top on to see what's happening with my cpu usage, though. i'm sure arlo and ed are working on getting various tiger techs into their widget environment. i'm not so sure their improvements warrant calling it konfab 2.0, but hey, they're tryin.' anythign that creates a horse race between apple and them is fine by me. means we get to pick whichever one works the best for us int he long run.
wonder how that windows support is going for them?
i haven't kicked terminal and top on to see what's happening with my cpu usage, though. i'm sure arlo and ed are working on getting various tiger techs into their widget environment. i'm not so sure their improvements warrant calling it konfab 2.0, but hey, they're tryin.' anythign that creates a horse race between apple and them is fine by me. means we get to pick whichever one works the best for us int he long run.
wonder how that windows support is going for them?
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Originally posted by rok
anythign that creates a horse race between apple and them is fine by me.run.
Exactly. Three cheers for competition!
Originally posted by dfiler
Exactly. Three cheers for competition!
and MSN Desktop Search is providing competition for Dashboard. I think Dashboard needs major tweaking - it doesn't fit with OS X. It barely follows it's own GUI rules, it's slow and the apps only work in the dashboard layer.
Is Konfab 2 more stable because it used to slow my old iMac a lot?
Originally posted by rok
one thing that i like about konfabulator (or perhaps what i don't like about dashboard) is that, when you have a lot of internet-enabled widgets, dashboard can feel like it takes forever to get going the first time in a session, because it retrieves all of the information for the widgets at once, and then tries to load them simultaneously (or at least that's what appears to be happening). but with konfab, it loads them sequentially. it's not any faster, but you attention darts around to each widget as it loads, distracting you from anything that's loading slowly. it's a total smoke-and-mirrors trick, but it makes konfab SEEM way faster than dashboard at times.
I don't like dashboard or konfab if I'm honest - neither have been thought through properly.
Originally posted by MacCrazy
and MSN Desktop Search is providing competition for Dashboard. I think Dashboard needs major tweaking - it doesn't fit with OS X. It barely follows it's own GUI rules, it's slow and the apps only work in the dashboard layer.
Is Konfab 2 more stable because it used to slow my old iMac a lot?
Um, Dashboard and MSN Desktop Search aren't close to the same thing. Do you mean MSN Desktop Search and Spotlight?
Originally posted by Placebo
Um, Dashboard and MSN Desktop Search aren't close to the same thing. Do you mean MSN Desktop Search and Spotlight?
Yes I do! Bit of a typo - has MS got a copy of dashboard yet?
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Originally posted by MacCrazy
Yes I do! Bit of a typo - has MS got a copy of dashboard yet?
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i believe the closest you'll find is the windows-version of konfabulator, though it's not included in windows (yet... i'm betting arlo, perry and ed are hoping for a check with lots of zeroes to be issued from redmond any day now)
Originally posted by rok
i believe the closest you'll find is the windows-version of konfabulator, though it's not included in windows (yet... i'm betting arlo, perry and ed are hoping for a check with lots of zeroes to be issued from redmond any day now)
I'm not so sure.