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Or the spacebar!
by nom 10y ago
Or the spacebar!
- nathancahill 10y agoHmm.. I might use that. For typing, I wouldn't miss the physical space bar key like I'll miss the physical escape key. It would be closer to where my hand is naturally on the trackpad too.
- nom 10y agoit could still work as a key :>
- tdy721 10y agoBut will it work like a key?
- nom 10y agoIt should be possible with enough care. A touch sensitive space bar would really enhance a keyboard (I'm mostly using a desktop though, doesn't make sense on a laptop)
- addicted 10y agoThat actually sounds like a pretty brilliant idea to me. If the space bar area was converted to the track pad. Tapping it would be a space, while dragging it would give you the touch bar like features. So for example, when using Word, you have formatting options on the space touch bar like they demonstrated on the touch bar. If you tap it, it's a space, but start sliding from the left, and the formatting options appear on the screen itself, and you stop sliding when you reach the option you want to select it. Basically, tap to touch, and slide to scrub between options (or between a timeline). This way you also wouldn't have to take your eyes off the screen to know what options are available.
- scotchio 10y agoLove this. Please go work at Apple
- benologist 10y agoThey could also have built the fingerprint reader into a key, judging by how Sony puts them inside power buttons. That would have been classy!
- saghm 10y agoThis gives me an idea. The keyboard on my phone recently added the feature to drag along the spacebar to move the cursor in the text, but it's far too small to be that useful. I think being able to swipe on the spacebar to move the cursor or horizontally scroll would be fairly useful (especially given how often I actually scroll slightly horizontally on trackpads when I try to scroll vertically)