HapticKey

I find the Touch Bar to be a brilliant idea, but the released execution didn't live up to the potential. https://vas3k.com/blog/touchbar/ https://pock.app https://community.folivora.ai/t/goldenchaos-btt-the-complete... https://github.com/niw/HapticKey

Exactly. The most impressive part is that it really feels like a click, down to the illusion it's moving down (but it's not, at all). When powering off (or there's a crash), the feeling of it being immovable is surreal. Plus the surface is suddenly responding evenly (the clicking ones had a hinged design, so it became increasingly hard to click upwards the surface) One can leverage the haptic feedback to make the TouchBar a bit more lively[0]. The illusion breaks a bit since the haptic device is farther away from the touch surface but it's still quite a transformative experience for the TB. [0]: https://github.com/niw/HapticKey

Try https://github.com/niw/HapticKey

Which it can via https://github.com/niw/HapticKey

> [0]: https://github.com/niw/HapticKey - or you might like 'brew cask install haptickey'. This is great, thanks for posting.

I guess this HN post will inevitably turn into about the MacBook Touch Bar, so I would like to contribute my opinion on this: I've said this multiple times here now, but the Touch Bar is really a joy to use and very useful if you're not the person who's always using only Vim. My personal feeling is that the people who dislike the Touch Bar heard the bad things about it, tried it for a time and two, decided that it's not something good, and spreading the word. Text suggestion is super useful, the emoji selector is useful very much, text formatting controls are very useful, debugging controls are super useful (and much superior than fn keys), moving between tabs are super useful, etc... Really I can't understand all of the hate that the Touch Bar gets on HN. And yes, you can touch-type on the Touch Bar, it's not context-sensitive enough to

I've found this tiny utility a great help. It provides haptic feedback for all touch bar presses (BetterTouchTool also has this feature). https://github.com/niw/HapticKey

> The thing is, you are bound to come across someone who finds a feature useful even if the feature is not useful for the vast majority of the people. Yeah, and I believe that the fn-keys are the exact symptom. I haven't encountered anyone that uses fn-keys to it's full potential (or at least, more than the Touch Bar can provide). > The touchbar is a flawed design concept imho. The entire reason I touch type is so that I don't have to look down from my screen. For simple actions, gaining muscle-memory on Touch Bar virtual buttons are possible. (I myself don't look the Touch Bar when performing simple & repetitive actions like open new Tab, or when pressing the escape key.) > It's jarring and discontinuous for me to have to look down to use the touchbar. Well, isn't it something like saying that it's discontinuous to move my hands from the

FWIW HapticKey adds feedback when you press touch bar keys: https://github.com/niw/HapticKey

> There’s no physical feedback for the escape touchbar area even after you learn to strike it without looking. Ah, I also agree that it's a problem. For now, I use the HapticKey[0] app to mitigate the problem. It's wonderful. [0] https://github.com/niw/HapticKey

> tactile feedback Not tactile, haptic only but there is https://github.com/niw/HapticKey

Re: Haptic feedback on the touch bar, see https://github.com/niw/HapticKey, which is surprisingly good despite being a massive hack.

Try HapticKey - it manipulates the Force Touch feature to provide haptic feedback when pressing the Touch Bar keys. https://github.com/niw/HapticKey How haptic feedback is not a general feature of this, is beyond me. How the Touch Bar is no longer an 'option' if you want a new MBP is also beyond me. Heck, Apple's been beyond me for some time. There are so many decisions I just don't understand.