Comments on: Backpack Journal Dashboard Widget

By: Conrad

Conrad — Tue, 05 May 2009 17:29:59 +0000

I really like the widget, but it’s enormous next to all my other widgets. I only have a MacBook and rely on many other widgets. Could make a “mini” version an option please? I don’t know if it’s still being developed.

By: Charles Melbye

Charles Melbye — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:24:57 +0000

This widget looks awesome, great job! If only the Journal was in Basecamp instead of/in addition to Backpack

By: BrianC

BrianC — Thu, 29 May 2008 12:54:20 +0000

Indeed it does not work on Tiger. I’ll add this to the TODO list, but again, no idea when I (or someone else? ) will get to it.

By: José Bonnet

José Bonnet — Thu, 29 May 2008 07:57:47 +0000

Can't seem to work on Tiger for me eather... Nothing happens on the Backpack side. Is this because I'm using a Solo account?

By: Rahul

Rahul — Wed, 28 May 2008 22:49:43 +0000

Pressing enter twice can lead to "double posting"; it's not unreasonable to assume people will seldom want to re-enter the same text twice.

Perhaps the widget should, on launch/update, display current status and entry above the respective text fields. Upon entering a new status or update, the text should be removed from the text field, a tickmark or somesuch should indicate API response of update completion. Then, the widget should check current entry/status information, presumptively being the updated information (but perhaps not) and present that above the text fields, as before.

This feedback notwithstanding, thanks for working on this! Your work makes this feature usable, to any real degree...

-RS

By: BrianC

BrianC — Wed, 28 May 2008 22:16:36 +0000

Hi Phil, thanks for letting me know. I haven’t tried it in Tiger but will. Not sure what would be Leopard only about it but who knows

By: Phil

Phil — Wed, 28 May 2008 22:07:03 +0000

When I install this and attempt to enter my url subdomain and API key, the widget consistently crashes. I’m on Tiger. Is this a Leopard only widget? Anything else you would like me to try?

By: seb

seb — Wed, 28 May 2008 16:52:49 +0000

Thanks for the job, it’s simply usefull

Growl Notification would be a great feature!

By: BrianC

BrianC — Wed, 28 May 2008 02:09:07 +0000

Rahul, thanks for the input. All good recommendations. I can’t make any promises of when I’ll get to any of it, but it’s appreciated.

By: Rahul

Rahul — Tue, 27 May 2008 17:27:43 +0000

I see, it's due to the http/https distinction.

This widget needs that feedback, so we know if the update succeeded or not. Also, it appears not to poll the current status, if we update on the site and then come back to the widget. The relevance of this is that accidental stale updates might be sent, by the errant keystroke.