Marcin WicharyMar 9

Do we need yet another person crashing out about Apple’s design decisions? Am I doing it only because it’s fashionable to be on Apple Design Hate Train these days? I’ll be honest: I don’t know. But I have been bothered by Apple’s approach to some of its keyboard design for a while.

Even if you don’t care about any of this, it might be a fun visual history of the most tricky of modern modifier keys: the [Fn] key. Hope you like it!

https://aresluna.org/fn

I don’t know what is Apple’s endgame for the Fn/Globe key, and I’m not sure Apple knows either

The origin and the evolution of the most confusing modifier key

Show threadGenerally Salty
@mwichary still looking for a way to program the useless F13–19 keys on the Apple wireless extended keyboard... there does not seem to be any way to do that, and they do not do anything anyway. Like whoever designed it decided to add useless keys for symmetry or something.
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Show threadMarcin WicharyMar 9
@david Hmmm, from my experience this built-in feature ↓ should work, plus third-party tools like Karabiner Elements or Keyboard Maestro give you options to use them, too.
Show threadGenerally SaltyMar 9

@mwichary thx, that worked. I kept looking in the Function Keys setting which shows me nothing useful.

Sheesh…

Show threadMarcin WicharyMar 10
@david Yeah, to be fair this UI and in general most keyboard mapping UI in macOS is generally not great.
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@mwichary Understatement…

I don't have issue with the Tahoe UI nearly as much as the many, many, many bugs that still aren't fixed five months later. Worst macOS release in my many years driving these things.

Show threadGlenn FleishmanMar 10
@david @mwichary My new one is that Safari windows’ tabs sometimes lose their close box. You can use menus or right-click but the hover-over the tab doesn’t work. Cycling open windows fixes it. Bah.
Show threadMarcin WicharyMar 10
@glennf Well it’s Liquid Glass, not stable glass, you know.
Show threadGlenn FleishmanMar 10
@mwichary Oops, I spilled
Show threadGenerally SaltyMar 10

@glennf @mwichary Snort.

Haven't experienced that one, yet anyway. The Music and Maps apps are big wiggly piles of bugs; bugs that did not exist in Sequoia.

Show threadPaul KoenigMar 10
@glennf @david @mwichary The inability to drag and drop onto icons while in list view has nearly driven me to madness. Need to drop on the file name.
Show threadAaron PrivenMar 10
@mwichary @david also some of the keyboard remap features in individual apps (from Adobe or Microsoft) will work with some of them, although I could get Excel to recognize only up to F15 and not F16-19.