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From: Bread <BreadWithSpam@Fractious.net>
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Subject: Re: Spotlight & Other Changes in Mavericks
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 08:14:00 -0800
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On 2013-11-15 14:42:48 +0000, Wes Groleau said:

> On 11-15-2013, 00:57, Your Name wrote:
>> In article <l63qda$sqo$1@reader1.panix.com>, Bread
>>> A keyboard shortcut for it might be helpful.  But there's no substitute
>>> for it just being *there* and for no window or app to have to start.
> 
> Seems to me that clicking a Dock icon to open a calculator window is 
> not much different than clicking a magnifier icon to open the even 
> bigger Spotlight window.

The magnifier icon is very much faster, even on a modern quad-core i7.  
And there's no window involved at all.  (And mind you, when I say "the 
magnifier icon" I mean hit cmd-space and immediately type numbers).  No 
changing of windows, focus, nothing. Just cmd-space and type.

> 
>> There's always the silly Dashboard, that almost nobody uses, which has
>> (had?) a Calculator widget too.  :-)
> 
> I definitely don't use Dashboard, and either I turned it off and don't 
> remember, or Apple has discontinued it.  In response to this thread, I 
> wanted to look at it and couldn't find it.

Ugh.  Removing Dashboard from my Dock is perhaps the very first thing I 
do when setting up a new account.  (Second is probably removing 
LaunchBar, but Dashboard's been wasting space on docks for a lot 
longer).