[QGIS-Developer] MacOS and touchbar

[Denis Rouzaud]

On Fri, 22 Feb 2019, 23:14 Tim Sutton, <tim at kartoza.com> wrote:

> Hi Nyall
>
>
> On 23 Feb 2019, at 01:34, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi list,
>
> This is just a heads up for any MacOS developers -- there's been some
> upstream work recently on Qt and handling the MacOS touchbar. There's
> two separate pieces of work here:
>
> 1. A (proposed) upstream Qt class - QMacTouchBar. Read more here:
> https://www.kdab.com/qmactouchbar-has-landed/
> Looks good in that it's intended to be part of the Qt library.
>
> 2. QtCreator's own implementation of touchbar handling - see
>
> https://code.qt.io/cgit/qt-creator/qt-creator.git/commit/?id=3c5650e514d6d8bad86a54a037e550db7cc19a71
> This one actually looks a lot nicer then QMacTouchBar, because it
> allows for "nested" touchbars based on QAction.
>
> If any MacOS developers* are motivated, I'd suggest [2] could be
> pulled into the QGIS mac native library and used throughout QGIS.
>
>
> I wonder if it is worth spending any effort on this? My experience from
> having a Touch Bar on my Mac is that I never use it, and when I do because
> I have to (e.g. to adjust volume or brightness), I wish I had keys rather.
> Maybe others do find it useful and I am an outlier, but without a ground
> swell of eager users, I think we might just be wasting effort (and bloating
> out code) on something that users won’t use.
>
> I love Macs but the Touch Bar == fail for me.
>
> It took me a while to use it, but I find it very handy for some softwares.
The main fail for me is the missing physical esacpe key. But I guess, touch
bar was not designed for him users. The other fail is that it's only
available for Macbook pro users.

I had also a look and was thinking of taking example of Qt Creator's
implementation. It would be nice to configure the shortcuts for the
touchbar.

But as Tim pointed out, it's quite a big effort for a very few users. I was
thinking to do this during hackfest. Let's see!

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> Nyall
>
> ( * I'm neither a mac user nor a fan of the touchbar concept, so aside
> from this heads-up I personally won't be pursuing this further)
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Denis Rouzaud
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