Re:Thoughts on the Late 2016 MacBook Pro
by mgkimsal on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @06:23AM
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if there was even a way to just have the f-keys on all the time by default, that would have helped. Last I looked, that was not an option - you needed to hold down the fn key (or control?)
You can actually, on a per application basis: http://m.imore.com/how-make-function-keys-default-touch-bar-...
Re:Thoughts on the Late 2016 MacBook Pro
by mgkimsal on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @02:33PM
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I don't want them on a 'per-application' basis.
The older macs, you could have f-key 'default' with the other options activated by holding the FN key, or reverse it, so that the brightness/etc were default, and f-keys activated by holding down the FN key.
There is no option to just have f-keys defaulted, with other touchbar stuff activated by FN key. For people who simply want standard f-keys as default all the time (like you could have in the previous macs), there is no option right now.
Re:Thoughts on the Late 2016 MacBook Pro
by SomeHacker44 on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @10:40AM
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You can't, actually. This only works for some applications. None of my WINE apps, for example, can have this enabled. Apple failed.
Re:Thoughts on the Late 2016 MacBook Pro
by jbverschoor on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @05:42AM
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Just wait until the force-touchbar and then the 3d-touchbar.
I agree with the feedback, but I'm certain they will add this.
Re:Thoughts on the Late 2016 MacBook Pro
by RugnirViking on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @06:43AM
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A 3d, force, touchbar sounds awfully like just a row of buttons to me ;-)
To fix that, one would need to rework the whole OS and applications in such way that they don't use F-keys at all, but rather something else.
So, fixing Touch Bar means rethinking OS and application shortcuts.
I don't think average users really use F-buttons that much, but we developers generally do.