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Re: Pock: Display macOS Dock in Touch Bar

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Post by Etheryte »

nerdwaller wrote: post #34

I'm not a lawyer, but I would consider revisiting your icon[0]. It looks identical to Patreon's[1] with a period/full-stop. On a technical note, this looks pretty cool and may have helped me hold off on ditching my mac products if I knew about it sooner! [0] https://pock.dev/assets/img/brand/pock_logo_w.png [1] https://c5.patreon.com/external/logo/guidelines/icon_color_v...

This is also the first thing I noticed and regardless of it not being related to the software itself it is a red flag. Ironically the favicon on the page is sufficiently different and wouldn't be mistaken for Patreon's logo, at least in my opinion.

Re: Pock: Display macOS Dock in Touch Bar

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Post by stilley2 »

ptah wrote: post #135
pintxo wrote: post #64

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REAL Thinkpad users will only ever use the little red stick and disable the trackpad (just joking). But it‘s worth a try, takes a couple days to get used to first.

you mean the nipple?

As always, there's a relevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/243/

Re: Pock: Display macOS Dock in Touch Bar

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Post by drclau »

mastazi wrote: post #129
stephenr wrote: post #95

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My experience is that when I use the F-keys I'm almost always using the 'default' action on macOS (i.e. not sending a native F12 for example, I'm adjusting volume), and for those tasks the Touch Bar is a little more useful, because it can do more things intuitively, but, I don't do those things a lot. So I don't think it's "not good" it's just so far down on the list of how I use a computer that it isn't worth raving…

I can imagine a lot of workflows like yours, where the function keys are not very important. However I can’t imagine using a keyboard without Escape key. In my opinion, the touch bar should have been a little bit smaller, and the physical esc key should have stayed. The product linked at the top of this discussion lists the Escape key as one of the main features, I think that’s telling!

I nearly never need Caps Lock, hence I remmapped Esc to Caps Lock. IMO, it is a better position for the Esc key anyway. Top-left is a bit far from everything else anyway. As about Touchbar, I don't find it bad at all, and I'm not neutral either. I do use it, but I think it could be improved both from software and hardware point of view (say, haptic feedback would be nice). Also, I would like to have it on external keyboard too.

Re: Pock: Display macOS Dock in Touch Bar

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Post by o-__-o »

rarecoil wrote: post #78
philliphaydon wrote: post #74

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I would have agreed with you many years ago, and even tho now there are still a lot of laptops that have bad trackpads... I honestly have 0 issues switching between a MacBook trackpad, and the one on my ThinkPad. Granted I'm still scared to run Linux on a laptop as I don't believe I will get the same battery life out of it as I do with Windows. So I've never tested the trackpad under Linux. On Windows it's great.

> Granted I'm still scared to run Linux on a laptop as I don't believe I will get the same battery life out of it as I do with Windows. Using tlp, setting all settings in Powertop and undervolting with intel-undervolt will get you some seriously crazy battery life. Battery life on my X250 is better under Linux than it is in Windows with these changes.

I get 5 hours battery life on my dual Xeon laptop under Linux.

I will say, I miss 2016-era power controls for Linux. Being able to set a max MHz allowed me to truly control my power and battery usage. Any idea why Linux changed that functionality in future power governers?

Re: Pock: Display macOS Dock in Touch Bar

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Post by o-__-o »

reaperducer wrote: post #40
jakear wrote: post #12

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I remapped capslock to esc and never looked back. In fact, I’ve gotten so used to it that I remap “normal” keyboards too. I use esc way more often than I’d ever use capslock, so having it at the pinky is perfect.

I remapped that way, and had to go back. I work on a lot of different computers in a week, and some of them aren't mine, so it's more useful for me to stick to the default map instead of getting things wrong on half of the machines.

This thread reminds me of using Dvorak back in 1999. Sure it may be better, it may even be faster.. but what happens in 20 years when I’m the only sucker using that layout? Take my own keyboard everywhere?

Re: Pock: Display macOS Dock in Touch Bar

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Post by dreen »

I dont know, I use Rocket which seems to be similar to Pock but after almost a year with it I havent actually made use of it once.

edit: IMHO the problem is the dock itself. it just sucks. even windows 10 taskbar is way better

Re: Pock: Display macOS Dock in Touch Bar

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Post by drclau »

neuronic wrote: post #119
beezischillin wrote: post #90

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I’m part of a really strange minority, I guess, but I absolutely love the butterfly keyboard. Though I’m not happy about the looming reliability problems

I also really like the butterfly keyboard but Apple has to invest in improving its reliability. I run a 2017 MBP with the second butterfly iteration and stories online have me worried that any day will be the last day of my keyboard. So far it works very well and when I went back to my 2012 MBP to find some old files, I noticed I vastly prefer the new keyboard. TouchBar however is the most useless thing ever. I absol…

You can now set Fn keys to always show. Now, as in since one or two MacOS versions ago. More so, you can actually set Fn to show _only_ for certain apps. For instance, when I remote desktop to a Windows machine, I usually use Visual Studio, and Fn keys are a must. Therefore, I set it up to always show Fn keys when Remote Desktop has focus.

I am honestly surprised how much people complain without actually digging a bit. This is not aimed at you OP, don't take it personally. :)

Edit: granted, Apple doesn't do much to let us know about such improvements. Maybe it's in some release notes, but I found out about this feature while playing with the settings.

Re: Pock: Display macOS Dock in Touch Bar

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Post by mattkevan »

zhte415 wrote: post #51
killjoywashere wrote: post #8

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you should try the old ThinkPad keyboards, like the X201. So nice. For the MacBook, if they had a version with a physical escape key, I'd be fine. Just make it a little shorter. It will be okay. I promise.

I still have a T420 for the keyboard and have no plans of leaving it.

Yeah the keyboard is nice, but the full-click trackpad is a rackety piece of crap.

Have to use a mouse on mine as the trackpad click switch has so much travel that I’ve accidentally moved the pointer off the thing I wanted to click on by the time it reaches the bottom. Tried using tap to click and fiddling with the settings, but on Linux it’s temperamental.

Re: Pock: Display macOS Dock in Touch Bar

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Post by [deleted] »

JoshTriplett wrote: post #53
jakear wrote: post #12

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I remapped capslock to esc and never looked back. In fact, I’ve gotten so used to it that I remap “normal” keyboards too. I use esc way more often than I’d ever use capslock, so having it at the pinky is perfect.

I remap capslock to "Super" (the logo key), which makes it much easier to invoke keyboard shortcuts like Super-L (lock screen), Super-left/right/up/down (left-maximize, right-maximize, full-maximize, restore), and Super-F (fullscreen).

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Re: Pock: Display macOS Dock in Touch Bar

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Post by monkeynotes »

IMO cmd+tab is far superior since it requires less movement from the rest position. I can navigate contexts extremely efficiently. I also use cmd+~ a lot for in-app window switching.

I do like the idea of having the touch-bar as a notification center though, that would be pretty helpful.

I have my Macbook on a stand with an external keyboard. Besides being ergonomically better like that, I also missed the physical esc button way too much and would often accidentally hit the touch escape with my left pinky. Being a touch button all you need to do is graze it and ESCAPE!!1

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