The control panel is under MacOS Catalina, and some people are not happy.

The control panel is under MacOS Catalina, and some people are not happy.

MacOS Catalina has undergone major changes, iTunes has been removed and split into three separate apps. It seems that another long-standing feature has been released in the form of the Dashboard. If you don't know, and you may not know since Apple has hidden and disabled it by default in OS X Yosemite five years ago, the Dashboard is a useful collection of widgets that allows access. fast to the usual ranking elements (weather, sports scores check, TV shows, etc., with many XNUMXrd party widgets). Dashboard fans could still re-enable it sooner, but with macOS Catalina, however, the option would have been removed altogether. In fact, as Appleosophy reports, in the Apps view, the Dashboard app is no longer present, replaced by a question mark, just like iTunes. Also, they used Terminal to try to force Dashboard activation, but to no avail.

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So it seems that unless Apple plans to re-enable the functionality during Catalina testing, which seems unlikely, Dashboard seems to be gone for good. The theory, certainly, is that most people don't use it anymore, and that Notification Center is where you should go looking for your gadgets for widgets anyway. However, many Mac users still use Dashboard, perhaps with some niche widgets that they found very useful, and these offerings won't necessarily be present via Notification Center. These people will just have to do their best, and maybe try to find some kind of solution or similar widget. Via 9to5Mac