The new floating menus feature makes it pretty easy to arrange the buttons however you want. Thanks again, Andreas.
I’ve set up a sort of Touch Bar for myself. Or whatever you want to call it. The idea is to keep your eyes on the screen and your fingers (the standard way) on the keyboard. Like this:
When the floating menu is open, the icons show me where each trigger is assigned. The icons represent the keys. The icons on the left are for the left hand, and the icons on the right are for the right.
Here’s an ugly example just to show what I mean.
So I just look at this floating menu and intuitively figure out (without thinking) which key is assigned to what.
Example: The Finder would be the letter “J” with the right hand and the letter “F” with the left hand. But the letters don’t matter. The right finger automatically finds the right key. At least, that’s how it works for me.
You can really do a lot with this.
- I use three layers by pressing the left Cmd or right Cmd keys. This way, the other fingers stay in their default positions.
- Generally, the right side has global triggers and the left side has app-specific ones.
- For websites, a short press opens the page in the same tab, while a long press opens it in a new tab.
- I also trigger some (complicated) window management functions this way.
The floating menu is just a visual indicator. It does nothing. The triggers are set up in a CAG: If the menu is visible, then F = Finder.
It's just another way to avoid having to memorize keyboard shortcuts that you don't use very often and to do without the mouse. Maybe not everyone finds this as intuitive as I do, but it's worth a try.