For me, the issue with the Touch Bar, and with this software is that it misses the reason I want shortcuts in the first place. I don't want another screen with shifting context, I want to rely on muscle memory to execute a task _without_ UI context. I want to interact with graphical context using my main display (touch or otherwise), and I don't want to use a smaller less flexible display for this task.<p>That said it is a neat technical achievement, and I applaud any effort to improve the HMI.
This is something that Alfred has implemented quite well <a href="https://www.alfredapp.com/remote/" rel="nofollow">https://www.alfredapp.com/remote/</a>
would love for mature projects to get more attention on this: <a href="https://community.kde.org/KDEConnect#What_is_KDE_Connect.3F" rel="nofollow">https://community.kde.org/KDEConnect#What_is_KDE_Connect.3F</a><p>kde connectg has the network and permissions almost figured out (and works with gnome and other wms too)<p>but it is lacking almost everything yet. there is a clipboard sync module, but not a simple text share, for example.
Is there an advantage to this over Unified Remote?<p><a href="https://www.unifiedremote.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.unifiedremote.com/</a>
I love this concept. Anyone know of software (other than Dragon) that does this with voice recognition? I could see myself using context aware voice commands in my day to day! I remember seeing some talks a few years back about a guy who used the Dragon API and Python to exclusively do programming due to his carpel tunnel's being very bad.<p>EDIT: programmer's name is Tavis Rudd <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SkdfdXWYaI" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SkdfdXWYaI</a>
It looks like it uses Windows. I made something like this a long time ago in bash, for Linux. It used a vncserver to drive the phone auxiliary display. The wonderful thing about the Linux desktop is how flexible it is.<p>Especially when you use things like Xinerama and Synergy to connect the different desktops.
Cool idea and an implementation too! Might be the direction Apple could be headed, the touch bar could go away and merge with the trackpad. A track screen which can handle both taps, clicks and have a visual display.
Does anyone else remember the keyboard overlays that were used in the 80s and 90s to help users remember keyboard shortcuts? That's what this idea reminded me of.
or use something like this <a href="http://www.roccat.org/en-RO/Products/Gaming-Software/Power-Grid/Home/" rel="nofollow">http://www.roccat.org/en-RO/Products/Gaming-Software/Power-G...</a>
So they just reinvented the toolbar on a smartphone screen. That's nice and all but the reason for the shortcuts in the first place was to not have to click the toolbar and use the keyboard, developing muscle memory and eventually not needing the cheat sheet. Like the mac touchbar, this is aimed at the casual user, not at power users.