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Kill Dashboard dead ... if you must
by Marc Perton Aug 10th 2005 at 9:16PM
Ever
since Apple released Dashboard as part of OS X 10.4, people have tried
to shut it off. Which seems reasonable; after all, you can kill just
about any app you don't like, including the Finder. But Dashboard, it
seemed, was always running, with a little black triangle under its icon
to prove it. Never mind that, in point of fact, Dashboard doesn't
really do anything or consume any system resources on its own; it only eats RAM and processor time once you
start running widgets. Despite this, the Kill Dashboard movement
began, with tips, scripts and preference panes, all designed to kill
something that isn't really "live" to begin with. This has now reached
its logical apotheosis with the release of the Disable Dashboard widget.
That's right; it lets you kill Dashboard from within Dashboard itself,
sort of like a Quit button with a GUI. Needless to say, all of this is
superfluous. If you don't use Dashboard, just drag it out of your Dock
and forget about it.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
C.K. Sample, III said 10:39PM on 8-10-2005
"If you don't use Dashboard, just drag it out of your Dock and forget about it."
Actually, it's still there. The problem with the Dashboard is that its code is integrated with the Dock. When you hack Dashboard to turn it off, you have to kill all Dock at the end, b/c it's part of the system code. The Dock has been the freeze queen of OS X since its introduction and Dashboard is just more bloat-code that really doesn't need to be *part* of the OS.
So, yes. Go turn it off if you aren't using it, and the Dock won't freeze as much.
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