A problem for most Mac users is the question, 'How can I remove widgets on Mac?' Well, not to worry — deleting widgets on a Mac isn't such a problem. All you need is a little bit of time, or just the right tools. So in this article, we'll go over how to remove widgets on Mac OS two ways: one way is with a Mac utility, and the other is removing Mac widgets manually.
Add apps, shortcuts & widgets to your Home screens As a precautionary health measure for our support specialists in light of COVID-19, we're operating with a limited team. Thanks for your patience, as it may take longer than usual to connect with us. Dashboard widgets are similar to Google Gadgets except that it’s intended for Dashboard of Mac OS X Tiger operating system, while Google Universal Gadget is a web-page based widgets. In order to install and use the Google Gadget on Apple Mac OS X Tiger OS, Google Gadget has to be converted into a Dashboard widget, by using Amnesty Generator.
To remove widgets on Mac manually:
Google Desktop was a computer program with desktop search capabilities, created by Google for Linux, Apple Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows systems. It allowed text searches of a user's email messages, computer files, music, photos, chats, Web pages viewed, and the ability to display 'Google Gadgets' on the user's desktop in a Sidebar. In September 2011, Google announced it.
Note: After deleting the widget (or widgets), click the background of the of the widget list screen to move back to the Dashboard; then, click the arrow icon in the lower-right corner of the Dashboard to to exit it.
A widget is a simple UI element that provides one or more of the following:
Sets of widgets added to card sections define the overall add-on UI. The widgetshave the same appearance and function on both web and mobile devices. Thereference documentationdescribes a number of methods for building widget sets.
To save time designing an add-on's widgets, designers can use theGoogle Workspace add-ons UI design kit available on Figma.You can create a free Figma account, or request a license from yourorganization's administrator.
Browse the components and use built-in templates to create and visualize widgets.
Add-on widgets are generally categorized into three groups: structural widgets,informational widgets, and user interaction widgets.
Structural widgets provide containers and organization for the other widgetsused in the AI.
In addition to these basic structural widgets, in aGoogle Workspace add-on you can usethe Card service to create structures that overlap the current card:fixed footers and peek cards:
You can now add a fixed row of buttons to the bottom of your card. This rowdoesn't move or scroll with the rest of the card content. The followingcode excerpt shows how to define an example fixed footer and add it to a card:
When new contextual contentis triggered by a user action, such as opening aGmail message, you can either display the new contextual content immediately(default behavior) or display a peek card notification at the bottom of thesidebar. If a user clicks Back
to return to your homepage while acontextual trigger is active, a peek card appears to help users find thecontextual content again.To display a peek card when new contextual content is available, instead ofimmediately displaying the new contextual content, add.setDisplayStyle(CardService.DisplayStyle.PEEK)
to yourCardBuilder
class. A peek card only appears if a single card object is returned with yourcontextual trigger; otherwise, the returned cards immediately replace thecurrent card.
To customize the peek card’s header, add the .setPeekCardHeader()
method witha standard CardHeader
object when building your contextual card. By default, a Peek card headercontains only the name of your add-on.
The following code, based on theCats Google Workspace add-on quickstart,notifies users about new contextual content with a Peek card and customizesthe Peek card's header to display the selected Gmail message thread's subject.
Informational widgets present information to the user.
User interaction widgets allow the add-on to respond to actions taken by theusers. You can configure these widgets with action responses todisplay different cards, open URLs, show notifications, compose draft emails,or run other Apps Script functions. See theBuilding Interactive Cards guide fordetails.
You can now define a KeyValue
widget that has a checkbox attached, instead of a button or binary toggleswitch. Like with switches, the value of the checkbox is included in theaction event objectthat is passed to the Action
attached to this KeyValue
by thesetOnClickAction(action)
method.
The following code excerpt shows how to define a checkbox KeyValue
widget, which you can then add to a card:
You can now define widgets that allow users to select a time, a date, or both.You can use setOnChangeAction()
to assign a widget handler function toexecute when the value of the picker changes.
The following code excerpt shows how to define a date-only picker, a time-onlypicker, and a date-time picker, which you can then add to a card:
The following is an example of a date-time picker widget handler function. Thishandler simply formats and logs a string representing the date-time chosen bythe user in a date-time picker widget with the ID 'myDateTimePickerWidgetID':
The table below shows examples of the picker selection UIs on desktop and mobiledevices. When selected, the date picker opens a month-based calendar UI to allowthe user to quickly select a new date.
When the user selects the time picker on desktop devices, a drop-down menu openswith a list of times separated in 30 minute increments that the user can selectfrom. The user can also type in a specific time. On mobile devices selecting atime picker opens the built-in mobile 'clock' time picker.
Desktop | Mobile |
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Some text-based widgets can support simple text HTML formatting. When settingthe text content of these widgets, just include the corresponding HTML tags.The following formats are supported:
Format | Example | Rendered Result |
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Bold | <b>test</b> | test |
Italics | <i>test</i> | test |
Underline | <u>test</u> | test |
Strikethrough | <s>test</s> | |
Font color | <font color='#ea9999'>test</font> | test |
Hyperlink | <a href='http://www.google.com'>google</a> | |
Time | <time>2020-02-16 15:00</time> | 2020-02-16 15:00 |
Newline | test <br> test | test test |
openLinkUrlPrefixes
field.