I’ve playing with it for a few months, and then vas3k’s post came along. Here comes BetterTouchTool then: a perfect storm of a structured widget platform, quirky UI and great AppleScript support. I tried to plug my deficiencies with AppleScript (which I think I know pretty well, definitely much better than JS), but it’s evident how much more powerful JS widgets can be. Ubersicht is fantastically powerful, but I suck at Javascript. Sharing some of the internet outrage at a disappearing Escape key, contextual controls that are impossible to memorize, no haptic feedback or disrupted line of sight, I started treating Touch Bar as a replacement for Ubersicht: a platform to build widgets! I realized it’s the perfect second screen: it’s just right for stuff I need often, but I’m not desperate for: small functionalities, intermittent status updates or simple tools. I’ve been playing with BetterTouchTool ever since I got the new Macbook Pro and pretty quickly realized how inefficient and counterproductive Apple’s implementation of Touch Bar was. This post is inspired by vas3k’s excellent tirade on how to make the Touch Bar actually useful by abandoning Apple’s guidelines.
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