Google employees criticize CEO for “dumpster fire” response to ChatGPT

Re:Google employees criticize CEO for “dumpster fire” respon... by GeekyBear on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @02:20PM (#34794524)

> Widgets would be a potential solution but they keep being tried and abandoned soon after in desktop OSes.

There's still a calculator widget for the MacOS notification center. It's accessed in any app through a trackpad gesture or by clicking on the date/time in the menu bar.

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Re:Google employees criticize CEO for “dumpster fire” respon... by mynameisvlad on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @02:33PM (#34794710)

For now. This is what, the third iteration of widgets on Mac?

The fact that it seems to be similar enough to the iOS implementation of them gives me hope, but only barely.

You also need to know the feature exists (they had notifications before widgets, people might not know it was updated to support them), that there exists a calculator widget, and to add it before you need to use it. That's the same discoverabiloty problem, with the added wrinkle that functionality changed in Monterey.

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Re:Google employees criticize CEO for “dumpster fire” respon... by GeekyBear on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @03:02PM (#34795131)

> For now.

For most of the past decade. I believe widgets were added to Notification center in 2014.

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Re:Google employees criticize CEO for “dumpster fire” respon... by mynameisvlad on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @05:34PM (#34797201)

High Sierra widgets are the second implementation I mentioned.

Dashboard was first, and then they were reimagined as iOS-style in Monterey.

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