<story><title>Apple kills the non-Touch Bar MacBook Pro</title><url>https://www.engadget.com/2019/07/09/apple-macbook-air-macbook-pro-updates/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Eric_WVGG</author><text>This thread is going to dissolve into a pile-up on the Touch Bar, so I wanna jump in front of this.&lt;p&gt;Readers of this site are mostly “hackers,” however mutated or dumbed-down that term has become over the years, correct? Everyone here has their windows and spaces just so, a full complement of shortcuts and trackpad gestures, and if they&amp;#x27;re serious about the Macintosh tools like TextExpander.&lt;p&gt;As standard as GUIs are, we&amp;#x27;ve all experienced a moment of disorientation when borrowing another person&amp;#x27;s computer. The more experienced and skilled that other person is, the greater that disorientation due to the amount of “hacking” they&amp;#x27;ve done on their own environment.&lt;p&gt;So how come this impulse stops at the Touch Bar?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve hacked the hell out of mine. I&amp;#x27;ve mapped inscrutable keyboard commands like cmd-opt-ctrl-D to context sensitive buttons, included globals for quick terminal visors and development tools and password managers… it&amp;#x27;s slick as hell and I hate giving it up when I occasionally opt for the external keyboard at home.&lt;p&gt;The Touch Bar is amazing, you just need to hack the damn thing. Yeah, Apple should have done a better job making it more useful out of the box, but it&amp;#x27;s possible to do some really wild stuff with it.&lt;p&gt;map your Caps Lock key to Escape and go to town. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;vas3k&amp;#x2F;btt-touchbar-presets&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;vas3k&amp;#x2F;btt-touchbar-presets&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>addicted</author><text>I’m not sure why you couldn’t do the same with the Fn keys instead.&lt;p&gt;What you’d lose in being able to look down and see what a key does at the moment, you’d gain in having more tactile response allowing for easier pressing without looking.&lt;p&gt;Also, when I find an inscrutable keyboard shortcut I use frequently, I simply remap it. There are enough KB shortcut combos possible that running out of keyboard shortcuts is rarely an issue. And bonus, you can touch type those shortcuts in.</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple kills the non-Touch Bar MacBook Pro</title><url>https://www.engadget.com/2019/07/09/apple-macbook-air-macbook-pro-updates/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Eric_WVGG</author><text>This thread is going to dissolve into a pile-up on the Touch Bar, so I wanna jump in front of this.&lt;p&gt;Readers of this site are mostly “hackers,” however mutated or dumbed-down that term has become over the years, correct? Everyone here has their windows and spaces just so, a full complement of shortcuts and trackpad gestures, and if they&amp;#x27;re serious about the Macintosh tools like TextExpander.&lt;p&gt;As standard as GUIs are, we&amp;#x27;ve all experienced a moment of disorientation when borrowing another person&amp;#x27;s computer. The more experienced and skilled that other person is, the greater that disorientation due to the amount of “hacking” they&amp;#x27;ve done on their own environment.&lt;p&gt;So how come this impulse stops at the Touch Bar?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve hacked the hell out of mine. I&amp;#x27;ve mapped inscrutable keyboard commands like cmd-opt-ctrl-D to context sensitive buttons, included globals for quick terminal visors and development tools and password managers… it&amp;#x27;s slick as hell and I hate giving it up when I occasionally opt for the external keyboard at home.&lt;p&gt;The Touch Bar is amazing, you just need to hack the damn thing. Yeah, Apple should have done a better job making it more useful out of the box, but it&amp;#x27;s possible to do some really wild stuff with it.&lt;p&gt;map your Caps Lock key to Escape and go to town. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;vas3k&amp;#x2F;btt-touchbar-presets&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;vas3k&amp;#x2F;btt-touchbar-presets&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TYPE_FASTER</author><text>I can&amp;#x27;t type on the keyboard without accidentally triggering the Touch Bar. I really wanted to hack it, but wow is it annoying. I have to relearn typing because of it.&lt;p&gt;If there was a small gap between the top of the physical keyboard and the touch bar, that might be enough to prevent false taps. Or I have to hack the Touch Bar to figure out where I&amp;#x27;m accidentally hitting it, and don&amp;#x27;t put any buttons there.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m also triggering false taps on the Touch Pad, which &lt;i&gt;never&lt;/i&gt; used to happen. I suspect if there was another gap between the bottom of the physical keyboard and the top of the Touch Pad, this wouldn&amp;#x27;t happen.</text></comment>