I have Konfabulator and Dashboard running but for utterly trivial things that I find myself looking at very often - Konfabulator puts a plain-text CPU temperature readout in the bottom right corner of my screen (so I can see when a process is having a massive spaz), and Dashboard has Weather and "Sing that iTune" (grabs lyrics for the current iTunes track from a variety of search sites - PearLyrics does the same quicker, but doesn't let you edit and save the lyrics).
They're neat enough that I keep both running, but I think at the end of the day they were never meant to be more than an occasional diversion (else they'd be on the desktop all the time, right? :) And dashboard's pretty harmless as long as you've got enough RAM - that said, 10.4.0's weather widget leaked like crazy, which nearly had my reverting to OS 10.3 on principle :P
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Date: 2005-10-19 09:49 pm (UTC)They're neat enough that I keep both running, but I think at the end of the day they were never meant to be more than an occasional diversion (else they'd be on the desktop all the time, right? :) And dashboard's pretty harmless as long as you've got enough RAM - that said, 10.4.0's weather widget leaked like crazy, which nearly had my reverting to OS 10.3 on principle :P