Sidebar Gadget

[Guest]

I older builds (ie January 2006) time frame, there was a Sidebar gadget that
allowed you to drag applications icons onto it. It would organize them into
a 4 x ? size grid. This was my replacement for the quick launch bar since I
can not drag it off of the task bar in Vista. My hope was that they would
bring the gadget back into the builds (by alas NO). Does anyone know what I
am talking about? Does anyone know what the gadget was actully called? I
guess I could pull out the older build, take an hour to load it on a system
to find out the name of the gadget BUT I though I would ask here
first....................

Brian Eshelman

 

[Sascha Benjamin Jazbec]

I think it was called "Application Starter". It was in Beta2 (5384) or in
5270 ( December 2005 CTP )
What else is missing is the gadget for the recycle bin.

SBJ

 

[Andre Da Costa]

App Launcher, and the Recycle Bin Gadget was pretty much useless, I was
hoping it would be a replica of the desktop one. I also wanted to see a
return of the Media Player Gadget first seen at PDC 2005 in a special 5219
build.

 

[Bruce Williams [MSFT]]

We pulled that app launcher gadget from the Vista box. While I can't
guarantee, its quite likely it will show up in the future on the gadget
gallery site: http://gallery.live.com - and if we don't, I'm sure some
enterprising gadget developer will make one.

-Bruce