{"id":3191,"date":"2016-11-29T09:24:04","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T14:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/red-sweater.com\/blog\/?p=3191"},"modified":"2016-11-29T09:26:08","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T14:26:08","slug":"title-free-touche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/3191\/title-free-touche","title":{"rendered":"Title-free Touch\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been impressed by the response to <a href=\"http:\/\/red-sweater.com\/touche\/\">Touch\u00e9<\/a>, my macOS utility for testing Apple&#8217;s Touch Bar without the need for Xcode.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s surprised the most is the number of people asking for minor usability changes. These are not the kinds of things you fret about when you&#8217;re using a utility here and there for a quick test, but when you are committing to run a utility full time:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It should move out of the way when the Dock appears<\/li>\n<li>It should slide off and on the screen like the old Control Strip<\/li>\n<li>It should be oriented vertically to stick on one side of the screen<\/li>\n<li>It should be a menu-bar icon, instead of appearing in the Dock<\/li>\n<li>It should appear correctly in full-screen apps<\/li>\n<li>It should position itself under menus so it can be kept at the top of the screen<\/li>\n<li>It should support hiding the title bar in the Touch Bar window<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I made Touch\u00e9 as a sort of gift to developers, designers, and yes, end-users who want to check out Apple&#8217;s Touch Bar. I didn&#8217;t anticipate it might garner a comparable amount of feature requests as my other software does!<\/p>\n<p>I am probably not going to be able to put a ton of time into supporting Touch\u00e9 or adding to its feature set. I like the simplicity of it, and I have a lot of other work to put the majority of my time into. However, I pick one item off that list: <a href=\"http:\/\/red-sweater.com\/touche\/\">Touch\u00e9 1.1<\/a> now supports an option to hide the Touch Bar window&#8217;s title bar.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been impressed by the response to Touch\u00e9, my macOS utility for testing Apple&#8217;s Touch Bar without the need for Xcode. What&#8217;s surprised the most is the number of people asking for minor usability changes. These are not the kinds of things you fret about when you&#8217;re using a utility here and there for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-red-sweater-news","category-touche"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3191"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3193,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3191\/revisions\/3193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}