Talk:Desk accessory

Latest comment: 2 years ago by Pyrolistical in topic Are these not just widgets?

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Someone needs to add the year that desk accessories first arrived.

1984, with the first Mac. It should be in there, but I don't see an immediate place. If nobody else adds it I'll look again in the morning. -- Steven Fisher 04:36, 24 May 2006 (UTC)Reply

is it just me..

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Just wondering why this article makes no mention of actual desk accessories? (IE: Pens, folder trays etc)--Matthew Fenton (TALK - CONTRIBS) 13:58, 23 May 2006 (UTC)Reply

screenshot needed

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It would be lovely to have a screenshot of this ancient app. Its UI was cribbed by a lot of different programs, and, IIRC, represents a decent (but flawed) early attempt to model enabling or disabling a big bag of different things at the same time. Adam Di Carlo 17:55, 29 November 2006 (UTC)Reply

Uhm.. what this..? thanks/Fenton, Matthew Lexic Dark 52278 Alpha 771 18:00, 29 November 2006 (UTC)Reply

Font/DA Mover redirection?

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I was redirected to the Desk Accessory entry when searching for Font/DA Mover... I think considering it was a crucial System utility for so many years, it should have its own entry. I can start a stub but I'm not sure how to make one that has a "/" character in the title and how to remove the redirection. Connectionfailure 03:47, 9 January 2007 (UTC)Reply

Just edit the redirect page :-) - (), 05:43, 9 January 2007 (UTC)Reply

authors

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Article should mention which ones were written by Microsoft and which ones were written internally; it's an interesting footnote to Apple v. Microsoft. Tempshill (talk) 04:36, 1 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

Requested move

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The result of the move request was: moved. ErikHaugen (talk | contribs) 07:07, 16 November 2011 (UTC)Reply


Desk AccessoryDesk accessory – Case: the topic is clearly a generic, not a proper name. Dicklyon (talk) 06:48, 14 November 2011 (UTC)Reply

So true. It's a good thing the article lead clarifies the topic: "A desk accessory is a small helper-type application." Dicklyon (talk) 15:34, 14 November 2011 (UTC)Reply
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Are these not just widgets?

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Should this be merged with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_widget#Desktop_widgets Pyrolistical (talk) 23:38, 12 April 2022 (UTC)Reply