Pock: Display macOS Dock in Touch Bar

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jun 21, 2019, 9:40 PM UTC

eddieroger wrote: post #182

jbigelow76 wrote: post #20

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I've been concerned about buying into the Touch Bar hardware when it seems like it is not coming to any other Macs. If Apple was going to try and open a new front on the "hearts and minds of Touch Bar skeptics" war then the Mac Pro reveal at WWDC a few weeks ago would have been the time to do it, that they didn't makes me think it's not long for this world. Not because the Mac Pro sales would have been hampered by it…

If memory serves, the logic to drive the Touch Bar is something that came from the Watch, which also included the Secure Enclave and other features that were more mobile than desktop. If that was true, then you can't trust the USB cable alone (or Bluetooth) to maintain the trust that circuit needs, and a keyboard with a Touch Bar would require a new circuit or at least design change to only do the display part, not t…

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jun 21, 2019, 9:44 PM UTC

jmchuster wrote: post #100

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MacBook Pro 2013 user here, and the trackpad is a huge reason I'd continue to stay with Apple. I don't know why other manufacturers can't seem to get it right.

I believe Apple actually holds patents on their trackpad algorithms, forcing everyone else to use worse driver implementations.

Post by mgkimsal » Sat, Jun 22, 2019, 2:47 AM UTC

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What I CAN NOT do, however, is move the 'ESC' key (or any, really) all the way to the left. There's always a 'Touch ID'-size spacer on the left of the Touch Bar.

That spacer still activates the 'ESC' key

Post by mateuszf » Sat, Jun 22, 2019, 4:06 PM UTC

viddo wrote: post #197

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I usually do that but it stopped working for me on new macbook :/

see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20234189

Post by foo101 » Sun, Jun 23, 2019, 6:15 PM UTC

mdonahoe wrote: post #228

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> inoremap jj That takes care of returning from insert mode to normal mode. What do you do for returning from other modes (operator pending mode, visual mode, etc.) to normal mode? I don't think it is possible to reliably reproduce all of the in all the modes with remaps.

I didn't know "operator pending mode" was a thing, so I definitely don't use Esc to leave it. For visual mode, apparently I just press v again. (I had to try it and see if I was subconsciously triggering Esc). I had already weened myself off the Esc key, so the touchbar isn't that big a deal for me (though, i dont really ever use it). The terrible keyboard reliability is much worse, ugh.