Comment by shagie
4 hours ago
Even though it's showing its age (and support is being phased out in recent builds), I still liked IntelliJ with the Touch Bar laptop.
https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/touch-bar-support.html
Having the Touch Bar screen show up the relevant buttons for the context I was in was really nice compared to trying to remember which F key was which debug option.
A "I wish..." would have been a $200 usb bar and hub that could sit right behind my keyboard for a desktop.
That was one of my two primary uses!
The other was I made some Shortcuts that were very handy for me and set them up as buttons. It’s been over a year, I still miss them.
One would pop up a dialog I could type a Jira ticket number into and it would open it. I tried to do that with Salesforce but they’re insane so you can’t.
My favorite would open my next meeting. Know I have a meeting in 5 minutes? Hit the button and my browser would open the right Google Meet or Zoom and come to the front.
So useful.
The desktop problem is a real one too. It was great… as long as you only use your laptop as a laptop or your keyboard. Use anything else and you list it.
iMac? No. Mac Pro? No. Mac Mini? Don’t be stupid. No.
MBP only.