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Re: How to start a Dashboard widget as soon as the user logs in?
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Re: How to start a Dashboard widget as soon as the user logs in?


  • Subject: Re: How to start a Dashboard widget as soon as the user logs in?
  • From: Lee Ann Rucker <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 11:29:19 -0700 (PDT)

I can imagine one - I had an otherwise cool astronomy widget I finally tossed because every time I launched Dashboard I had to wait 5-10 seconds for *any* widget to be functional while it fetched the latest content.

Something that ran in the background and fetched data for it every few hours or so, so that it could just pop up instantly like a widget ought to, would've been so much nicer.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Lee" <email@hidden>
To: "Kyle Sluder" <email@hidden>
Cc: "John Joyce" <email@hidden>, email@hidden
Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2011 9:36:31 AM
Subject: Re: How to start a Dashboard widget as soon as the user logs in?

On May 22, 2011, at 12:15 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote:
> On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 1:57 AM, Joanna Carter
> <email@hidden> wrote:
>> I would think the best option for Behrang would be to write an ordinary app, that can be launched on startup, that provides the services behind a Dashboard Widget, which the widget simply "connects" to.
>
> Yes, this is the way to go. But it's also possible to use a launch
> agent, and therefore avoid having an app icon in the dock.

I don't understand the need for a Dashboard widget at all?

--Andy


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