Here’s an article written mid-2004 comparing Dashboard and Konfabulator.  From Daring Fireballs:



A sliding puzzle. A calculator. A clock. A little notepad. Tiny

little applets — little pieces of software that are something less

than full applications themselves, but which run alongside real apps

and are easily accessed at any time.


Obviously, Apple ripped off the idea for Dashboard. Stolen

wholesale, without even the decency to mention where they took the

original idea.


Which, of course, would be the desk accessories from the original

1984 Macintosh — conceived by Bud Tribble and engineered (mostly) by

Andy Hertzfeld.


Notwithstanding these debates, I’m enjoying the use of both!


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