Thanks, I tried and things went well until I tried pasting into the
/Library/Widgets folder. Paste was grayed out. To confirm I actually had
something to copy, I checked the contents of the clipboard and the widget
showed up on that clipboard.
On Sun, 26 Aug 2007, Scott Howell wrote:
> You will put the widget in the /Library/Widget folder. I don't have a
> folder in my user home folder so, not sure if you can create one there
> and have the os pick that up. I need to play with the widgets more I
> guess. Didn't find them all that interesting. grin
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> Scott
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> On Aug 26, 2007, at 5:29 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
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> > Okay, when I was on the dashboard the weather widget got selected and
> > when I did that VoiceOver said bring widget to front. The new widget
> > isn't yet available to select on the dashboard so far as I know. If I
> > can copy it to the dashboard or somehow alias it that might work. It
> > was downloaded tonight and the zip file was opened up so I have the zip
> > file and the widget sitting on my desktop now.
> > On Sun, 26 Aug 2007, James Jolley wrote:
> > > Ah, I see what you've done. I did the exact same thing. What you
> > > need to > do is press controll, voiceOver, shift and f2. This
> > > selects what is > usually called window choozer but renamed to wigit
> > > choozer in the > dashboard. so move down to the one you want and
> > > select it.
> > > > Speaking of wigits, how do you actually remove them if your sick
> > > > of them?
> > > > Best
> > > > -James-
> > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jude DaShiell" >
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> > > To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS
> > > X by > theblind" <[email protected]>
> > > Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2007 6:43 AM
> > > Subject: Re: Strange Dashboard behaviour
> > > > > > Once a widget gets downloaded, how is it moved onto the
> > > > > > dashboard so it
> > > > can be selected? I have a few on the dashboard and downloaded the
> > > > bbc
> > > > widget but when I do f12 cn-op-f2 cn-op-f2 that's not one that's
> > > > yet
> > > > available to be selected yet.
> > > > > > On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, James Austin wrote:
> > > > > Hi Anne,
> > > > > > Yes this is what i do as well. I have not come across any
> > > > > > widgets > > > > that > have been inaccessible to me a as
> > > > > > of yet.
> > > > > > Take care
> > > > > > James
> > > > > On 22 Aug 2007, at 10:41, Anne Robertson wrote:
> > > > > > > Hello James,
> > > > > > > > How are you launching your widgets? I never have the
> > > > > > > > problem > > > > > > of > > multiple copies of a
> > > > > > > > widget.
> > > > > > > > I press F12 to open Dashboard, then press ctrl-Option_F2
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > twice to get > > the Window Chooser Menu,
> > > > > > > > then navigate down > > > > > > to the widget I want
> > > > > > > > and > > press Return.
> > > > > > > > Installing widgets can be a problem for VO users as on
> > > > > > > > many > > > > > > of them, > > the Accept or Done
> > > > > > > > button is not accessible > > > > > > with VO and
> > > > > > > > sighted help > > is needed.
> > > > > > > > HTH
> > > > > > > > Anne
> > > > > > > > > > On Aug 22, 2007, at 12:47 AM, James Austin wrote:
> > > > > > > > > Hi folks,
> > > > > > > > > > Has anyone noticed that sometimes for some odd
> > > > > > > > > > reason, > > > > > > > > you seem to > > > get
> > > > > > > > > > multiple copies of a widget or > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > widgets on the Dashboard? It's > > > not a problem,
> > > > > > > > > > I > > > > > > > > find it quite amusing, I am just
> > > > > > > > > > curious to know if > > > > > > > > > > > anyone
> > > > > > > > > > else has had this and how they dealt with it.
> > > > > > > > > > Thanks
> > > > > > > > > > James Austin
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