On Sun, 24 Feb 2019 at 06:03, Denis Rouzaud <denis.rouz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Fri, 22 Feb 2019, 23:14 Tim Sutton, <t...@kartoza.com> wrote: >> >> Hi Nyall >> >> >> On 23 Feb 2019, at 01:34, Nyall Dawson <nyall.daw...@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) >> _______________________________________________ >> QGIS-Developer mailing list >> QGIS-Developer@lists.osgeo.org >> List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> --- >> >> Tim Sutton >> t...@qgis.org >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> QGIS-Developer mailing list >> QGIS-Developer@lists.osgeo.org >> List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > > -- > > Denis Rouzaud > de...@opengis.ch > +41 76 370 21 22 > > _______________________________________________ QGIS-Developer mailing list QGIS-Developer@lists.osgeo.org List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
