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Re:Sampler for Mac Touchbars by chrisweekly on Friday July 10, 2020 @05:55AM (#23789785)
I don't mean to pick on you in particular, but I continue to be flabbergasted by the number of people who claim to suffer from the presence of the default touchbar interface.

MTMR (My Touchbar My Rules) took me all of 15 minutes to install and configure to my liking. Then another few minutes to tweak it (adding brightness and volume buttons on either side of their respective sliders) when I realized I wanted both control mechanisms available.

In the time it takes to complain about the default config you could have fixed 100% of the things about it that bother you.

Re:Sampler for Mac Touchbars by IncRnd on Friday July 10, 2020 @08:51AM (#23790954)
Unfortunately, my touchbar removed my escape key. Yes, I took a few minutes and remapped the caps-lock key to escape - but, I now have a single mb that has a different key configuration than every other mb and mac keyboard that I use.

This is a perfect example of why Apple is cool at reimagining and reengineering, but it is not an enterprise company. That may not matter to some, but it does to many.

Re:Sampler for Mac Touchbars by chrisweekly on Friday July 10, 2020 @02:42PM (#23794840)
Not to belabor the point, but you could easily configure the touchbar to put an esc key in the top-left corner.
Re:Sampler for Mac Touchbars by IncRnd on Friday July 10, 2020 @03:57PM (#23795691)
Thank you.

The tb came that way, but it wasn't correct in placement or how many it had to be touched when the tb was dark. The tb isn't good for programmers when quickly typing text. It's also a complete change for changing volume quickly. This comes into play when switching multiple times every day between full volume meetings on headphones and full or medium volume on speakers. The tb doesn't act the same as original keys just by adding virtual keys.

Yes, these are first-world problems, but this was completly needless and makes the keyboard less useful than all of the other mac keyboard I use daily. It's like Apple thinks that people have one and only one computer they ever use.

Re:Sampler for Mac Touchbars by chrisweekly on Sunday July 12, 2020 @10:24AM (#23811501)
I hear you, but - again - using a tool like MTMR allows you to create a huge, persistent esc key in the top left corner, and volume and brightness sliders and buttons, etc.