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Yes.... But you know what I REALLY miss that I didn't expect to? Touchbar on the Macbook Pro. I hated that stupid touch bar, but on the new macbook pro it's gon

by neom 5y ago

Yes.... But you know what I REALLY miss that I didn't expect to? Touchbar on the Macbook Pro. I hated that stupid touch bar, but on the new macbook pro it's gone, and I miss it so much. I'm dyslexic and having the words pop up predictively made me so efficient, I find myself going back to my old macbook pro when doing long from writing as I'm considerably faster on it as I don't have to stop and think about every single word. If someone wrote an app that mimics the touchbar predictive text, I'd buy it.

vmception 5y ago
I wish the M1's had it too, I skipped everything by holding onto a maxed out mid-2015 mbp. I'm glad Apple got rid of the butterfly keyboard, added ports back, but I was never against the touch bar, I wanted to play with it. I think I would have had an issue missing a separate function key bar though.
- officialjunk 5y ago
  i wish the touch bar was slightly shorter and the keyboard had a dedicated escape key instead. the function keys i use much less frequently.
  - kaba0 5y ago
    The 2020 mac book pro does have an escape key left to the touch bar.
    - vmception 5y ago
      (and touch id on the other side! the topic of this thread)
      - officialjunk 5y ago
        awesome!
- originalvichy 5y ago
  The person you replied to found touch bar simulators to be a solution. Check above.
originalvichy 5y ago
Surely there is someone who could program an on-screen predictive box that is more easily readable than this current possible solution for this [0]. Maybe this TouchBar simulator is something that you could try [1]? I wonder if it works on machines that don't have it at all. [0] https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/326664/can-i-get-word-suggestions-on-mac-like-i-do-on-iphone https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/326664/can-i-get-w... [1] https://github.com/sindresorhus/touch-bar-simulator https://github.com/sindresorhus/touch-bar-simulator
- neom 5y ago
  Huzzzzza! The touch bar simulator worked perfectly!I will make a donation to that developer. Thanks!
Eric_WVGG 5y ago
I loved the Touchbar from day one. I ultimately had about 60 custom buttons spread across a dozen apps. Now I’m back to wondering if F4 is mapped to “toggle responsive design mode” or “clear cache and refresh”.
Xavdidtheshadow 5y ago
The touch bar was very interesting tech! My favorite use was scrubbing songs/videos and being able to adjust the brightness of my monitor and screen independently. That's where the tech shined- having context-dependent UI elements. When you hit the physical brightness button, you just have to guess what's going to get adjusted. I think with most things, the answer here was to have a mix of keys and buttons. With 100% TB, it's slow to change volume/brightness. With 100% keys, I've got all these extra keys I can't use (you can re-bind them with 3rd party software, but it's fairly static). I'd personally pull like, F3-F9 in favor of a touch bar, and then be able to configure the remaining buttons. I'm a little sad reaction was so strongly against the idea on the whole, it definitely had potential.
multiplegeorges 5y ago
Agreed, I like it. It's basically just a display for Spotify, but it's very handy. Make it shorter, put in a physical escape key and it'd be perfect.

by neom 5y ago

vmception 5y ago

I wish the M1's had it too, I skipped everything by holding onto a maxed out mid-2015 mbp. I'm glad Apple got rid of the butterfly keyboard, added ports back, but I was never against the touch bar, I wanted to play with it. I think I would have had an issue missing a separate function key bar though.

officialjunk 5y ago
i wish the touch bar was slightly shorter and the keyboard had a dedicated escape key instead. the function keys i use much less frequently.
- kaba0 5y ago
  The 2020 mac book pro does have an escape key left to the touch bar.
  - vmception 5y ago
    (and touch id on the other side! the topic of this thread)
    - officialjunk 5y ago
      awesome!
originalvichy 5y ago
The person you replied to found touch bar simulators to be a solution. Check above.

originalvichy 5y ago

Surely there is someone who could program an on-screen predictive box that is more easily readable than this current possible solution for this [0]. Maybe this TouchBar simulator is something that you could try [1]? I wonder if it works on machines that don't have it at all. [0] https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/326664/can-i-get-word-suggestions-on-mac-like-i-do-on-iphone https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/326664/can-i-get-w... [1] https://github.com/sindresorhus/touch-bar-simulator https://github.com/sindresorhus/touch-bar-simulator

neom 5y ago
Huzzzzza! The touch bar simulator worked perfectly!I will make a donation to that developer. Thanks!

Eric_WVGG 5y ago

I loved the Touchbar from day one. I ultimately had about 60 custom buttons spread across a dozen apps. Now I’m back to wondering if F4 is mapped to “toggle responsive design mode” or “clear cache and refresh”.

Xavdidtheshadow 5y ago

The touch bar was very interesting tech! My favorite use was scrubbing songs/videos and being able to adjust the brightness of my monitor and screen independently. That's where the tech shined- having context-dependent UI elements. When you hit the physical brightness button, you just have to guess what's going to get adjusted. I think with most things, the answer here was to have a mix of keys and buttons. With 100% TB, it's slow to change volume/brightness. With 100% keys, I've got all these extra keys I can't use (you can re-bind them with 3rd party software, but it's fairly static). I'd personally pull like, F3-F9 in favor of a touch bar, and then be able to configure the remaining buttons. I'm a little sad reaction was so strongly against the idea on the whole, it definitely had potential.

multiplegeorges 5y ago

Agreed, I like it. It's basically just a display for Spotify, but it's very handy. Make it shorter, put in a physical escape key and it'd be perfect.