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My gripe with the touch bar is that for every IDE you have to customise it to see the function keys by default. It's so damn annoying. Why can't the default lay

My gripe with the touch bar is that for every IDE you have to customise it to see the function keys by default. It's so damn annoying. Why can't the default layout be just the Fn keys ?

ethbro 6y ago
> Why can't the default layout be just the Fn keys ? Because then no software would have used it. (Said ironically)
dankohn1 6y ago
"Settings: Keyboard: Touch Bar shows" lets you permanently set to F keys or (my preference) the Extended Control Strip.
Ndymium 6y ago
You can change it to show the F-keys by default in macOS settings. Then by pressing Fn you can view the "special" mode.
dewey 6y ago
Because 95% of the people don't use them and for them having an emoji picker, a volume, brightness control is more useful. The small group of people who actively use the Fn keys can just enable this checkbox at the settings.
- blhack 6y ago
  Someday they should make a pro model for the 5% of people who don't care about emoji pickers.
  - dewey 6y ago
    I wouldn't hold my breath for a big mainstream corporation to address the needs of 5% of their market share.
- cma 6y ago
  And lose touch typing
saagarjha 6y ago
FWIW, I really hate IDEs (usually ported over from other platforms with little thought) that use function key shortcuts for commonly-used actions. I instantly remap "run" in every IDE to ⌘R.