I have a Windows/gnome history. So I still miss switching between windows, not apps, easily. Could this deliver that too? Pretty please.
Check out this app. I believe it is the utility you're after...
Pock: Display macOS Dock in Touch Bar
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Re: Pock: Display macOS Dock in Touch Bar
#82Notice how all these have an esc key. That should have been a hardware key! A message from the Vim gang.
As a member of the Vim gang, I have to say that using caps-lock is better anyway and MacOS has a built-in setting for it now, so go and fix that right away.
That said, I had a MBP with touch bar for half a year and even though I was quite excited when they announced it, I hated it. I will not buy another laptop with that thing on it.
Re: Pock: Display macOS Dock in Touch Bar
#83I use MTMR[1], My TouchBar My Rules. Great JSON-based customization. Built in Dock applet included (a great pomodoro applet as well, my fav). The sample presets are kind of cluttered, but removing some of the items and making others was ultra simple. If you know AppleScript you can pretty much any button. [1] https://github.com/Toxblh/MTMR/
Aw man, this looks even cooler! I fear that the momentum has swayed to Pock though.
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#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unfortunately ThinkPad trackpads aren’t nearly as good as MacBook trackpads.
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.
Because it’s surprisingly hard to calibrate and requires a lot of algorithms that handle a ton of edge cases. You have to have serious R&D to get it right.
Re: Pock: Display macOS Dock in Touch Bar
#85Coincidentally I also just upgraded my personal laptop from a 2012 retina MacBook Pro to the 2019 i9 MacBook Pro! Long story short I think the touchbar is totally useless. I have it set to emulate regular function keys right now (expose, launchpad etc) However everything else is top notch and well worth it. The touchid is fantastic, and you will immediately enjoy the difference. Screen is amazing, 8 cores is super ni…
I'm also on the fence about upgrading. I am thinking of just buying a mac keyboard so I have an escape key. That key is very essential to my workflow. Do you think it's a good idea?
I use karabiner [1] to remap the capslock key to esc.
Re: Pock: Display macOS Dock in Touch Bar
#86I'd recommend BetterTouchTool and things like finger swipes for volume up/down and brightness up/down and showing things like Spotify. Originally started with Vas3k preset but eventually replaced things with the built in widgets and gestures
My favorite BTT mapping: 3 finger click (touchpad and/or magic mouse) generates a middle click event. I have no idea how people open and close browser tabs without this, since browsers have great middle click response but Apple pointing devices don't natively generate such clicks.
I have two similar mappings, four finger tap is a middle click (or cmd+click) and four finger click is cmd+shift+click.
That way if I want to open a link in a new tab I can choose between opening it behind the current tab or in front.
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#87I 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.
The difference between ThinkPad’s (or any other respectable brand of laptop) touchpad and the MacBook touchpad is nearly equivalent. Whereas the difference between the MacBook keyboard and - honestly - most other respectable brand of laptop’s keyboard is quite significant.
Given most people on here will spend a significant amount of more time typing than they do using the touchpad (whether that be writing reports / scrum tickets or just programming) it should be a no brainier that keyboard ergonomics are far more important than the quality of the touchpad. And that’s without taking into account my first point that MacBooks aren’t even that much better than the competition in terms of the touchpad.
From a personal perspective, I’ve used a lot of engineering laptops over the years and honestly the latest generations of MacBook Pro’s are amongst the worst I’ve used. Which is a great shame because I do honestly like some of the value that OSX adds. However OSX isn’t enough to tip the balance when Linux is actually pretty damn good on the desktop these days.
Re: Pock: Display macOS Dock in Touch Bar
#88Notice how all these have an esc key. That should have been a hardware key! A message from the Vim gang.
As a member of the Vim gang, I have to say that using caps-lock is better anyway and MacOS has a built-in setting for it now, so go and fix that right away. That said, I had a MBP with touch bar for half a year and even though I was quite excited when they announced it, I hated it. I will not buy another laptop with that thing on it.
TIL it's now a native option. Thanks!
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/127591/using-caps-lock-a...
Re: Pock: Display macOS Dock in Touch Bar
#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm also on the fence about upgrading. I am thinking of just buying a mac keyboard so I have an escape key. That key is very essential to my workflow. Do you think it's a good idea?
I use karabiner [1] to remap the capslock key to esc. [1] https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/
Interesting.. so this is how the esc key is now? I guess it's compromise. Maybe I'll get used to it eventually.
Sigh I'm just sad apple wont budge on a high end non-touchbar model
Re: Pock: Display macOS Dock in Touch Bar
#90I 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.
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