Passing $widget to process() but never used in target
This isn't terribly serious but it is inconsistent and may possibly trigger a PHP function declaration warning I would guess...
See this line:
https://code.vtiger.com/vtiger/vtigercrm/blob/master/modules/Vtiger/views/ShowWidget.php#L70
Notice how it passes the Widget model as well as the Request model in the call to the Dashboard class' process() method? In only two of all of the classes process function declarations is the $widget module defined as an argument: The Vtiger_Notebook_Dashboard and the Vtiger_MiniList_Dashboard. In every other Dashboard class the process method is declared as only accepting one argument, e.g.
public function process(Vtiger_Request $request) {
But of course, you can't really declare it with two arguments (without triggering function mismatch declaration warnings) as it inherits from the Vtiger_IndexAjax_View class ;-)