<story><title>Nyancat on the touchbar</title><url>https://github.com/avatsaev/touchbar_nyancat</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>monkmartinez</author><text>You mean like the ginormous trackpad directly beneath the keyboard? Wouldn&amp;#x27;t it be cool if they built scrubbing&amp;#x2F;scrolling right into that?&lt;p&gt;Also, dynamic shortcuts! Like the kind you get with BetterTouchTool[1]?&lt;p&gt;[1]&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.boastr.net&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.boastr.net&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>hanief</author><text>Apple&amp;#x27;s HIG[1] on the Touch bar is actually great. You can sort of understand the reason Apple put it on the Macbook. You can at least envision two interesting things:&lt;p&gt;- Touch UI for scrubbing&amp;#x2F;scrolling contents faster.&lt;p&gt;- Dynamic shortcuts for most used commands that previously only accessible by using the keyboard.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;developer.apple.com&amp;#x2F;library&amp;#x2F;content&amp;#x2F;documentation&amp;#x2F;UserExperience&amp;#x2F;Conceptual&amp;#x2F;OSXHIGuidelines&amp;#x2F;AbouttheTouchBar.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;developer.apple.com&amp;#x2F;library&amp;#x2F;content&amp;#x2F;documentation&amp;#x2F;Us...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>72deluxe</author><text>I thought this whilst watching Apple&amp;#x27;s event. All of the functionality they demonstrated on the TouchBar basically duplicated functionality already in each app via a shortcut. Eg. safari - you can open a new tab! (cmd-T). There&amp;#x27;s an address bar! (cmd-L). You can go to each tab! (cmd-number, eg. cmd-1).&lt;p&gt;And all of the gestures were what the excellent touchpad was built to do anyway. Scrubbing? Gestures will do that.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s like they put two giant touch interfaces on the device so that they could fight for attention, and the poor developer has to write two handlers for the two event sources, whilst it does the same thing at the end of it.</text></comment>
<story><title>Nyancat on the touchbar</title><url>https://github.com/avatsaev/touchbar_nyancat</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>monkmartinez</author><text>You mean like the ginormous trackpad directly beneath the keyboard? Wouldn&amp;#x27;t it be cool if they built scrubbing&amp;#x2F;scrolling right into that?&lt;p&gt;Also, dynamic shortcuts! Like the kind you get with BetterTouchTool[1]?&lt;p&gt;[1]&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.boastr.net&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.boastr.net&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>hanief</author><text>Apple&amp;#x27;s HIG[1] on the Touch bar is actually great. You can sort of understand the reason Apple put it on the Macbook. You can at least envision two interesting things:&lt;p&gt;- Touch UI for scrubbing&amp;#x2F;scrolling contents faster.&lt;p&gt;- Dynamic shortcuts for most used commands that previously only accessible by using the keyboard.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;developer.apple.com&amp;#x2F;library&amp;#x2F;content&amp;#x2F;documentation&amp;#x2F;UserExperience&amp;#x2F;Conceptual&amp;#x2F;OSXHIGuidelines&amp;#x2F;AbouttheTouchBar.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;developer.apple.com&amp;#x2F;library&amp;#x2F;content&amp;#x2F;documentation&amp;#x2F;Us...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hanief</author><text>I haven&amp;#x27;t actually tried it yet, but by watching the launch demo and several screenshots of touch bar on app like Photos or Final Cut Pro I can see that:&lt;p&gt;- Touch Bar is probably better on scrubbing&amp;#x2F;scrolling because you can actually see the zoomed out content, like the entire timeline of the movie on FCP.&lt;p&gt;- I haven&amp;#x27;t tried Boastr. I am sure it&amp;#x27;s useful and faster for pro. But on first look it&amp;#x27;s pretty complicated. It&amp;#x27;s not built in to the Mac and not easily accessible, especially for new user.</text></comment>