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Re: Pock: Display macOS Dock in Touch Bar

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Post by hnzix » Thu, Jun 20, 2019, 6:16 AM UTC

intothemild wrote: post #63

Notice how all these have an esc key. That should have been a hardware key! A message from the Vim gang.

Ctrl-[ homie. But I hear you.

Re: Pock: Display macOS Dock in Touch Bar

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Post by pySSK » Thu, Jun 20, 2019, 6:17 AM UTC

This makes so much sense! The location of the Touch Bar UI is conceptually unfriendly. We're accustomed to a touch pad closest to us but now we have two touch interfaces separated by a huge keyboard-gulf. Moving the dock to the Touch Bar makes sense for the Touch Bar because i. it's a very small shift in location, and ii. dock icons are more direct action buttons compared to more abstract pointing and gestures we can to with the touch pad.

Re: Pock: Display macOS Dock in Touch Bar

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Post by silon42 » Thu, Jun 20, 2019, 6:17 AM UTC

pintxo wrote: post #64

city41 wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunately ThinkPad trackpads aren’t nearly as good as MacBook trackpads.

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.

Not joking; I'd like to have a button/key to disable the touchpad that some gaming laptops have.

Re: Pock: Display macOS Dock in Touch Bar

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Post by philliphaydon » Thu, Jun 20, 2019, 6:17 AM UTC

city41 wrote: post #56

philliphaydon wrote: post #7

I used to love the mac keyboard. Of any non Apple laptop it was superior... until I tried out a ThinkPad just over a year ago. I honestly don’t think I could own anything other than a ThinkPad from now on for the keyboard alone.

Unfortunately ThinkPad trackpads aren’t nearly as good as MacBook trackpads.

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.

Re: Pock: Display macOS Dock in Touch Bar

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jun 20, 2019, 6:18 AM UTC

city41 wrote: post #56

philliphaydon wrote: post #7

I used to love the mac keyboard. Of any non Apple laptop it was superior... until I tried out a ThinkPad just over a year ago. I honestly don’t think I could own anything other than a ThinkPad from now on for the keyboard alone.

Unfortunately ThinkPad trackpads aren’t nearly as good as MacBook trackpads.

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Re: Pock: Display macOS Dock in Touch Bar

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Post by hnzix » Thu, Jun 20, 2019, 6:19 AM UTC

Elidrake24 wrote: post #70

timvisee wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Remap CapsLock instead.

I did, it's my ctrl like anyone else that doesn't hate their pinky.

The next level is using Karabiner-Elements to map to when held and when tapped.

Re: Pock: Display macOS Dock in Touch Bar

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Post by philliphaydon » Thu, Jun 20, 2019, 6:22 AM UTC

killjoywashere wrote: post #8

philliphaydon wrote: post #7

I used to love the mac keyboard. Of any non Apple laptop it was superior... until I tried out a ThinkPad just over a year ago. I honestly don’t think I could own anything other than a ThinkPad from now on for the keyboard alone.

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.

Hmmmm I appear to have deleted my comment by mistake.

Unsure which was the first I ever tried, ~20 years ago I used my uncle's ThinkPad but I don't recall the model.

I tried someone elses ThinkPad and was like "Wow this is nice to type on" so while in Taiwan I went to the Lenovo store and looked at the laptops. Ended up buying a ThinkPad X1 Extreme and I love it. Best laptop I've owned.

The Lenovo Legion series tho, the keyboard isn't as good as the ThinkPad.

Re: Pock: Display macOS Dock in Touch Bar

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Post by rarecoil » Thu, Jun 20, 2019, 6:23 AM UTC

philliphaydon wrote: post #74

city41 wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunately ThinkPad trackpads aren’t nearly as good as MacBook trackpads.

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.

Re: Pock: Display macOS Dock in Touch Bar

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Post by savolai » Thu, Jun 20, 2019, 6:25 AM UTC

I have a Windows/gnome history. So I still miss switching between windows, not apps, easily. Could this deliver that too? Pretty please.

Re: Pock: Display macOS Dock in Touch Bar

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Post by epaga » Thu, Jun 20, 2019, 6:28 AM UTC

Great idea.

A related tool I highly, highly recommend is BetterTouchTool - you can completely customize your Touch Bar to show and do almost anything you want it to do, based on the app context you're in. You can do what this does but 100 other things as well.

It's made the Touch Bar actually worth it for me.