15-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar is my main work tool for more than a year. I use it every single day, all day long — to code, to process photos, and to write my blog posts, of course.Back in 2017, I thought the Touch Bar had a vast potential to become engaging and helpful.
I believed developers might support it in their applications. I was hoping there was a use for it. A year has passed, applications have been updated, but as a Pro user of Pro 15-inch laptop with a 3K Euro price tag, I do declare now — the Touch Bar still remains the useless shit and there is no hope Apple will fix it. Things got even worse when Apple 'reinvented' the Play/Pause button in High Sierra. Now it controls everything, from browser ads to notifications sound. Everything, except music. WAT?As a machine, MacBook Pro is great.
But not because of the Touch Bar. Touch Bar is an inflamed appendix, the same dumb shit as Siri. If Apple had implemented it as an additional row and not the F-keys replacement, everyone would forget about it in a couple of days.The reason is simple — that's how you see your laptop 99% of the time. If you have, well, HANDS, you hardly see the Touch Bar more than twice in two hours. The first time, when you're leaving to get some coffee, second time — when you back with the cup of hot flat white.No pro-user ever thought of copying text using Touch Bar or something like this, but Apple guidelines restrict any unique features.
So why do I even need this crap, if it does not give me unique capabilities and takes away my F-keys.We're doomed. MacBooks treated us well, and any other laptop feels like a cheap plastic toy nailed to the floor. MacOS is still the best, combining the usability of popular operating systems and flexibility of Unix.What else do we have? To use Photoshop in Wine? To watch Plasma crashes like in good old days? I've read every single guide to the BetterTouchTool setup and came up with the following conclusions based on whether it works for me or not. CoolCrapName of track playingDeadly necessary feature.
I'm always wondering what Spotify's Discover brings me.Bitcoin priceNo idea why this widget is so popular. Worthless distraction.Volume buttonsButtons rock.
It's always faster to tap, not slide.Brightness sliderRequires lots of space but used once a week when watching 'Futurama' at night.Finder in one clickI want to have instant access to Finder, anywhere. Default Touch Bar can't do that. Weird.RAM usageUseless. In modern OS it's always nearly 100%. That's natural.No, I'm not only listening to music and open Finder all day. I code, deploy my dockers, etc. All my work instruments are set up flawlessly.
Touch Bar can't make them work better.However, a lot of processes are always running in the background. Music keeps playing. New ideas pop-up — would be good to write them down. Touch Bar is a perfect place for everything you don't need all the time, but it's a pain in the ass to look for such things when they're needed.
Several times My Touch Bar stopped working while Esc was hidden. No idea why hide it at all. Esc must always be tied to its rightful place. It is now, thanks to BetterTouchTool.The button next to Esc returns the default Touch Bar, just in case you need something from standard functionality. Haven't used it yet, though.Imagine, you want to drag a picture to a browser to upload. You click the Finder, but instead opening a new window at the same screen, it carries you away somewhere. Just because there's another Finder window opened there.
And it's fucking impossible to fix that with standard MacOS tools.Here comes the AppleScript. First, it forces a Finder to open a new window, then tells it to switch to home folder and opens it on top. That's the only way I've found.Despite that, AppleScript is fun.
You feel like playing a text RPG when coding. Tell application 'Finder'make new Finder windowset target of front window to path to home folder as stringactivateend tell. Standard Touch Bar will never support the most useful feature — to display the name of track playing.
Instead, Apple provides you with huge and useless timeline slider. I don't know what's playing but know the moment in time. Handy.Fuck sliders and buttons.
I only need a track name and a cute pictogram. You can easily google AppleScript configuration for that.
It works with both Spotify and iTunes, even when both are active.In my script, the click on the name of track playing works as 'next'. Especially when 'Nickelback' song interferes the AI-generated playlist.Whether there is a way to get back to the previous track?
The 'prev' button used rarely. No need to waste space.
When I need that for some reason, I just open an app. If application 'Spotify' is running thentell application 'Spotify'if player state is playing thenreturn (get artist of current track) & ' - ' & (get name of current track)elsereturn 'end ifend tellend ifif application 'iTunes' is running thentell application 'iTunes'if player state is playing thenreturn (get artist of current track) & ' - ' & (get name of current track)elsereturn 'end ifend tellend ifreturn '. Would be cool to display the name of the YouTube video on the Touch Bar, right?There's a script for that too. It looks through open Safari tabs and finds one that starts with youtube.com/watch. Then, displays tab title on the Touch Bar.
Clicking on it gets you to the exact tab. Neat!We have a little problem here, though. BetterTouchTool can only run the script by a timer. There's no way to make a simple browser plug-in for displaying the text.
You have a script running once in 20 seconds, and praying it won't overload the CPU. My personal guilty pleasure is to see what's the weather outside now. Imagine this — there's freaking cold, and you're sitting by the fireplace, covered in bees plaid, with a glass of hot wine. Or — it seems like there's a sunny and warm day, which means the adventures time!A long time ago I even had a little utility for tracking the current weather in a tray. Probably the first app I bought.Now I decided to make one for the Touch Bar.
The main issue of such things is the hardcoded location. I always forget to change it when traveling. It's nicely done in, where location traced through an IP.With and installed, you can write it youself in couple of lines of AppleScript. No need to buy $1.99 app from AppStore. PROFIT!If you need a full report, clicking brings you straight to the local weather website. You can even add emojis to display the cloud cover.
Take a look at our GitHub repo at the end of the article, some of my readers already made that. Tell application 'Location Helper'set clocationcoords to get location coordinatestell application 'JSON Helper'set weather to fetch JSON from '& item 1 of clocationcoords & '&lon=' & item 2 of clocationcoords & '&units=metric&appid=YOUROWMAPPID'set temp to temp of main of weather as stringreturn temp & '°C'end tellend tell. Vital rule of the office life — block your laptop when leaving.
No need to explain this.I'm not a fan of 'hot corners' so I always used the Ctrl + Shift + Power shortcut before. Pity, it doesn't work on new MacBooks because of the Touch ID. The good news is you can add a button for this action to the standard Touch Bar.I decided to steal this feature and make the 'coffee break' button.
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It locks the laptop and switches the screen off. Extremely useful and has an adorable pictogram — everyone notices it and asks how to get one too. I hate sliders on Touch Bar.
Changing them to buttons was the first thing I did. Now I can tap them blindly. Guess, even my stress level significantly dropped when I stopped trying to put the sliders in the desired position. It was same to adjusting hot water in a shower — you're never gonna get it without burning yourself.Look how close the buttons to each other at this part of the Touch Bar.
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Guidelines state to place them 2x wider. For me though, it seems like the perfect placement. My favourite size. Also take a look at the if you want even more control.The AppleScript for my Play/Pause button controls iTunes and Spotify, depending on active one.
If both are not running, it will automatically launch Spotify. No need to think of it. If application 'iTunes' is running thentell application 'iTunes' to playpauseelsetell application 'Spotify' to playpauseend ifHere's one more script to change the play/pause pictogram: if application 'Spotify' is running thentell application 'Spotify'if player state is playing then return 'pause'end tellend ifif application 'iTunes' is running thentell application 'iTunes'if player state is playing then return 'pause'end tellend ifreturn 'play'. Yeah, previously I've mentioned that only Linux nerds set clock everywhere. Though, there are two important and unobvious uses for them on Touch Bar.First: you will always occasionally tap any key, placed above the Backspace/Delete button.
That's the suffering area, where no action must be placed, if you don't want to activate it every 5 minutes. Probably, that's why Apple put Siri there (analysts were satisfied, I bet). For us, it's merely a spot for a clock.Second: full-screen apps. Most of the day my PyCharm opened in a full-screen. It helps me to efficiently use the screen and not get distracted by 'critical bug fix asap' messages. The thing is, you can't see time in a full-screen mode you and could easily miss the important meeting.In short, it's useful.
Here's the complete preset, as promised:. To import it into your BetterTouchTool, click Manage presets — Import. To make Weather work, you also need the and.Try it. You only need an evening to sort it out.
Probably you compile something great, and Apple will hire us all because we're cool.upd: A lot of cool guys wanted to share their presets too, so we created a GitHub-repo for that. Feel free to add your own:upd2: Much time has passed since the article was written. BTT author has added many cool features that you can use instead of our hand-made widgets.
The bad news: our presets are mostly not working now. At the beginning we tried to update them for each new version of BTT, but there were so many incompatible changes that we gave up.
So, just use this article as a guide and you will be able to create something even cooler. I am very proud that we had such an impact on touchbar customization and BTT itself. Thank you, guys! If they wanted a dedicated widget display space, why not put two lcds in the unused area next to the touchpad below the keyboard?
There are two solid 4' x 5' areas that could display widgets.As for 'interactive' sections, custom buttons should go on bars on the left and right sides of the keyboard. Oh there's two speakers there? Who gives a crap, impress us Apple. Make a combined speaker/display.Or put some stuff on the unused bezel where the CIA monitoring camera already is.But keep the goddamn function keys. Might be completely unrelated, but since you have put so much thought into the touch bar and the fact that it occurred to me while reading this article:How would you feel if the whole keyboard was converted into a touch bar (board). Moving away from the mechanical keys to one's on the touch surface.I'm not a Mac user although love the touch and feel of the touch bar.
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Makes me ecstatic to think the whole keyboard can be given that look and feel. Maybe customisations can be made as mentioned in this article, but with more flexibility in terms of position (from 1D to 2D space).Anyway, wondering what are your views on this? AshNehete, if Apple makes a new MacBook Pro generation with a screen-keyboard (as we see in the patents), it will be very sad for me. After all these years with Apple I will forced to look for another laptop, sorry.
I can not imagine how it is possible to type on the screen just as effectively as on a physical keyboard.But it seems to me that this patent is made just to be here (like thousands of other unused Apple patents). To troll other companies or something like that. Maximum I believe that this can be an 'absolutely new' device, something in between the ipad and macbook. But who knows. BetterTouchTool author here:-)Thanks a lot for the cool guide (and for the critique which is definitely welcome and valid. I'm just starting to work on the Touch Bar functionalities again after having created them about a year ago).I think you have an important point in that it should be possible to update widgets from outside of BTT.So this morning I have made a few changes and added the ability to either trigger the widget's script via Apple Script or via a custom URL (btt://refreshwidget/uuid) or to update the content of a widget via either Apple Script or a custom URL.Triggering a custom url should be easily possible from within a Browser extension (e.g. Via window.location or window.open).This will be available in the next alpha later today and I'd appreciate feedback on whether this helps your usecase (boastr.net@gmail.com or on Github: ).
My whole preset is not that interesting, but I do have one super useful button that people might be interested in.I have several external drives connected to a dock that I use with my MacBook Pro at my desk. When I want to disconnect the laptop and take it away from the desk, it's a pain to eject all of those drives manually, so I made a BTT button that disconnects them all and then opens a Finder window so I can see when it's done (as a separate action following this script).tell application 'Finder' to eject (every disk whose ejectable is true and local volume is true and free space is not equal to 0).
MacBooks treated us well, and any other laptop feels like a cheap plastic toy nailed to the floor.Uh. Have you used any non-Apple laptops that cost more than $700? MacOS is still the best. What else do we have?
To use Photoshop in Wine? To watch Plasma crashes like in good old days? No, thanks.This makes me think you haven't tried a Linux-based operating system SINCE the 'good old days'. Works fine, nowadays. RAM usage: Useless.
In modern OS it's always nearly 100%. That's natural.If you include buffers and cache, maybe, but why would you? Or do you mean that your applications often use nearly 100% memory?
If so, I hate to break it to you, but that's a symptom of your ridiculously expensive laptop. Not having enough RAM.I know these seem like pointless gripes, but like.
Why are you such a jerk to people who use Linux? You spend time in three separate places making fun of Linux users. What the heck does that accomplish? Sorry, it looks like too much work for little result.I only interact with the touch bar when I sit down at the computer then I change volume and brightness and then I never look back.For me it's a no-touch-bar.Sure, I use the touch bar occasionally to access the escape and function keys when really necessary.But it breaks my workflow since I have to 'look down' and figure out what is going on down there. I really avoid using it as much as possible.Yes. It would be nice to have a system wide touch bar displaying custom widgets like clock, weather, cpu etcetera.But personally I would prefer it to display RSS news a like a scrolling text spanning the full with of the bar.
I mean that would be a really useful since the dimensions are really optimal for scrolling text.But this is Apple and their message to their customers is FU.I mean the users are not even allowed to change theme anymore. It really confuses me that the user is still allowed to change the desktop wallpaper. It doesn't make any sense, Apple wise.
People should be working so they can buy more Apple products right, not changing wallpapers?I will wait for the hack that takes full control of the touch bar. Full width scrolling text, system wide, customizable. Taking control of some space the corner is not for me.Nice work and effort but no. @J ('try Billy')So you'd rather have a constantly distracting bar of RSS news instead of something actually productivity related? Well, each to their own I guess.
I'd sooner want to physically destroy my touch bar than having it bombard me with news.I do agree that a better first-party user friendly friendly interface should be made for customizing the touch bar. Like what BTT does, just from Apple.@vas3k You click the Finder, but instead opening a new window at the same screen, it carries you away somewhere.
Just because there's another Finder window opened there. And it's fucking impossible to fix that with standard MacOS tools.Try this, it fixed a lot of frustration for me with using multiple spaces and switching apps:defaults write com.apple.dock workspaces-auto-swoosh -bool NOkillall Dock. 'Despite that, AppleScript is fun. You feel like playing a text RPG when coding.'
This made my day, LOLFor touch bar, I actually just kept brightness buttons.2, mission control to be combined with cmd to show desktop, esc by default, and that's all. I put them in original keyboard positions so I could still use muscular memory. I don't even use the esc, because it is too far away for any vim user. Btw I have caps lock binded to esc.I don't see the necessity for any other keys on a touch based interface that is right next to a bunch of switch mechanisms which make them comparably easier to be triggered (unexpectedly, often).For launching an App I always use Alfred, not even dock.
I reserve dock probably just for my colleague, in case I need to pass them my laptop.I guess the name of video/music playing could be cool, but then again touch bar is usually obstructed by my (relatively large) hands, a glance on the screen is much simpler and faster.Now I just want my normal keyboard back. With the fking TRAVEL of the keys too. I hate to say this about Apple products since I am always a huge fan, but new MBP sucks. Typing is a disaster, as bad as the touch bar. And no MagSafe?
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