[QGIS-Developer] MacOS and touchbar

[Peter Petrik]

Hi,

we have had a similar discussion, but not able to find much benefits for
QGIS users too.

Peter

On Sun, Feb 24, 2019 at 11:40 PM Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Sun, 24 Feb 2019 at 06:03, Denis Rouzaud <denis.rouzaud at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > 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!
>
> I keep getting tempted by https://palettegear.com/ , just for the "new
> toy" factor. But everytime I think about it, I actually can't see any
> practical use for them in QGIS which would improve a real-life
> application use case. I think the touch bar falls into a similar
> category.
>
> The best use case I can come up with would be shortcuts for different
> map themes, but that could just as easily be addressed by adding
> ctrl+1, ctrl+2, etc keyboard shortcuts. And then everyone could take
> advantage of them.
>
> Nyall
>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 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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> >> ---
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> >> Tim Sutton
> >> tim at qgis.org
> >>
> >>
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> > Denis Rouzaud
> > denis at opengis.ch
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> >
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