Put aside the whole Dashboard vs. Konfabulator debate… If you are a Konfabulator user, you should download the latest: version 1.7.1 as it has a wealth of bug fixes and a few extra features.

• Added Konspos Only Widget level (see Release Notes),
• Added preference panel to gear menu with options for setting the Konspos key and whether to use a simpler Konspos for slower machines.
• Fixed painting glitch when a text object that overlaps a rotated image is updated.
• Fixed scrolling text objects that display a lot of text.
• Greatly improved handling of explicitly labelled encodings of data loaded with URL.fetch() (see Release Notes).
• Added F16 as a valid hotkey.
• Fixed long-standing “transparent background pops through” bug with textarea objects.
• Fixed weird focus behavior with textarea in opacity tracking mode.
• Added optionValue preference attribute (see Release Notes).
• Internationalized the system preferences which are added to the Widget preferences dialog.
• Fixed problem with registration reminder window ending up topmost after a Konspos.
• Fixed several problems with convertUNIXPathToHFS().
• Widget preferences windows now display a smaller version of themselves if there are many preferences on a small screen.
• Added Finnish translation.
• Updated translations.
• Fixed problem with encoding of extended characters in AppleScripts.
• Implemented font fallbacks (see Release Notes).
• Fixed problem with restarting a Widget when Konspos is active.
• Added global JS actions onKonsposeActivated, onKonsposeDeactivated.
• Fixed problem with certain kinds of data obtained from URL.fetch() failing to be encoded correctly.
• Addressed issue which could cause multple copies of a Widget to start running.
• Fixed problem with caused errors in included JavaScript files to not be displayed.
• Tightened up error checking. In particular, objects must now have unique names.
• Many other fixes and enhancements.

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