DashOff - 1.01

Unlike the other feedback which is nothing more than venting about the weakest link in Mac OSX aka, "The Dock", this is about DashOff. It works as advertised. With it you can easily turn the Dashboard on or off as you desire. It has a no-brainer installation and takes up virtually no space on the drive.

It worked great on my Powerbook G4/ Tiger, BUT.... after installing it on my iMac G5/Tiger, the whole thing came to a screaching halt. The system was dragged down to a crwal with all operations timing out. I finally got the disk utility open and managed to do a permissions repair.

This is what resulted.

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Repairing permissions for “HD”
Determining correct file permissions.
User differs on ./Library/Perl, should be 0, owner is 501
Group differs on ./Library/Perl, should be 80, group is 20
Permissions differ on ./Library/Perl, should be drwxrwxr-x , they are drwxr-xr-x
Owner and group corrected on ./Library/Perl
Permissions corrected on ./Library/Perl
We are using special permissions for the file or directory ./Library/Widgets. New permissions are 16877
User differs on ./Library, should be 0, owner is 501
Group differs on ./Library, should be 80, group is 20
Permissions differ on ./Library, should be drwxrwxr-t , they are drwxr-xr-x
Owner and group corrected on ./Library
Permissions corrected on ./Library
We are using special permissions for the file or directory ./usr/lib/php/build/acinclude.m4. New permissions are 33060
User differs on ./usr, should be 0, owner is 501
Group differs on ./usr, should be 0, group is 20
Owner and group corrected on ./usr
Permissions corrected on ./usr
User differs on ., should be 0, owner is 501
Group differs on ., should be 80, group is 20

Permissions repair complete
Permissions differ on ., should be drwxrwxr-t , they are drwxr-xr-x
Owner and group corrected on .
Permissions corrected on .
The privileges have been verified or repaired on the selected volume

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I don't know if this is directly related to DashOff but since the repair included Widgets, I suspect it did. The system works fine now but I have stopped using DashOff until I can research it some more.

If you DashOff guys are listening, maybe you can fix this.

If you Apple guys are listening, why don't you just put an on/off switch on Dashboard.

The reviews I've seen here are not about the product, but about Apple. What a bunch of whiners! This little app does exactly what it says it will do, and it does it safely, accurately, without fail. In short, it works. If you are in the film or audio industry, and you need every shred of system resources, this script is for you. Get it, use it with confidence, and enjoy widgets when you want them. It works in 2 seconds. Just not a problem. I give it five stars. The miserable ratings you see in the early reviews have nothing to do with DashOff, but with people whose real criticism is directed at Apple, with which for whatever reason they are apparently dissatisfied.

the extra ram dashboard takes without any widgets running actually goes in the dock. to stop this just go to /library/widgets/ and delete them all then your dock won't take barely any ram. heres the funny thing though, when i tried this app, disabling dashboard made my dock take twice as much ram as it does when i have dashboard on. otherwise it just seemed to block access to dashboard. just drag it out of the dock, turn the key command off and delete every widget and then dashboard is really gone.

What's the reason for having this on/off: just don't hit F12 and it's off.