Microsoft says the feature is currently in development and promises to introduce it in January.
What's Microsoft doing?īuilding on the useful Touch Bar controls offered by other Office applications on Macs, Microsoft recently confirmed it intends to roll out Touch Bar Meeting Controls for Teams on Mac users. This will give those using a Touch Bar-equipped Mac controls for mute/unmute, start/stop video, open sharing tray, open the view participants panel and a raise/lower hand tool. It means for the applications you rely on most, you get better and easier to access controls - once you get used to them. And it provides a logical combination of contextual touch controls that fit with the way you use a personal computer. It’s certainly more useful than the Function bar it replaces, which most people hardly ever use, other than F1. (Optional) for pretty icons, I recommend Icons8.But on applications we use most often, the Touch Bar is really useful, as (at best) it can provide quick and convenient access to settings and controls that might otherwise be harder to find.Locateme - for dynamic location in weather widget.JSON Helper - fantastic tool to dig into those pesky JSON records.I know it’s awful, please don’t break my nose. Here goes! The boring stuff: dependencies It pushed me to optimize my setup and eventually write about it. 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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