Rocket: Access the Dock from the MacBook Pro Touch Bar

33 Comments on Rocket: Access the Dock from the MacBook Pro Touch Bar

1. Someone should invent a wack-a-mole game for the touchbar.

2. Command-Space, , Enter.

   • these people are the worst kind ugh….. they are too afraid of the change
     and they wanna pull back others with em. even when cruze mode was
     introduced for the cars there were people sayin ‘hey is pressing
     accelerator that hard? jeez’ but now what? cruze mode is so convenient in
     highways. I bet you still go to every offline store to buy your stuff lol

   • Suyon Kim what’s changed? They’ve literally took out buttons and added
     digital buttons.

   • +blastercombo audio Digital buttons can change their UI to fit any apps
     purpose. Are you still using your qwerty keyboards? No

     Change is a change even if it’s a minimal change

   • to be fair though command+space seems quite a bit faster than command+that
     button up left and then scrolling through your apps. That is even if the
     app isn’t in your dock because then you could just use the massive trackpad
     to pan towards the icon and click. I like efficiency – and that doesn’t
     have to be the touchbar the entirity of time for it to be efficient in
     general.

3. Nice tool! Now I just need a Macbook Pro…

4. What else can launch apps from the dock… Oh yeah, the dock.

5. This would be good if the space bar was an OLED screen too.

   • R.I.P Battery Life if that was true.

   • RIP battery life? What? How would it be any different?

   • +Eddie Leonard Constant OLED screen on the space bar? You tell yourself why
     the battery life will be poor.

   • No, no, you don’t understand what I mean, Take away this touch bar and but
     a dock in the space bar.
     And the battery life must surely be poor if this touch bar is on
     constantly. I don’t understand your logic 🙁 Sorry.

6. Apple should give the option to move the Dock to the Touchbar without
   hacking. That way users can use the entire screen.

7. When you think about it its actually a pretty good idea, especially when
   you run all your apps in full screen lol

8. Have you had any issues with the display flickering while running Premier
   Pro or FCP X?

9. How is this a “fast” app switcher? Instead of just pointing and clicking an
   app in your dock, you have to press the shortcut, go to all apps, and then
   select the app. Seems more gimmicky than useful.

   • will be my end This is meant for your immediate Apps. Not the ones hidden
     on the launcher.

10. why hasn’t apple done this yet? so dumb

    • The hardware is created, so that the software can be added and expanded
      later. Patience.

11. How does battery life compare between the touchbar and non-touchbar models?

12. Another gimmick app for the gimmicky touch bar.

    • wwbdwwbd Yet here you are, wishing you had one.

    • Ah no, I wish I didn’t have one. I’ll ask my boss to exchange this for the
      base model without the touch bar.

    • Good for you. (no-ones cares)

13. It’s easier to swipe on the screen

14. I have the 15″ with touch bar, but I don’t see the point of these apps.
    It’s so much faster for me to use cmd+space, type cal to bring up the
    calendar; or any other apps for that matter. My hands remain on the
    keyboard and it’s much faster…

15. this reminds me of rocketdock, a utility for windows that gives you a
    mac-style dock.

16. So lets think about this for a second. FIRST, you have to hit command and
    tilda to just invoke the rocket application. Than you have to touch the
    application that you want, and hope the application is open. So firstly,
    why on earth would you do this in the first place, when you can do that
    entire thing by just clicking command and tab. Ok, so now lets just say the
    application you want is not already running, but it’s in your dock. So lets
    continue by clicking yet another button, and than maybe scroll over a bit
    to finally find the application that you want. And that ENTIRE time you
    could have just done that with a swipe and a click of the trackpad. To be
    fair, it’s a little pointless if you ask me.

    • Don’t worry, this concept will find it’s way on next year’s macOS which
      won’t require a shortcut. You guys need to realise that software can be
      altered in the future, and that third parties are confined to the
      limitations of Touchbar for now.

17. Touch Bar sounds like an interesting place to have a drink.

18. isn’t CMD+TAB much more faster? For switching between launched
    applications?

19. What’s that USB C cable you have?