Missing touchbar actions

[cratrifork]

In version 2, I seem to remember that there was a Touchbar item to choose smileys.

It would be a nice addition to add some functionality to the Touchbar.

[danielbuechele]

This is blocked until electron supports the TouchBar. Here is their issue: https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/7781

[janclarin]

@danielbuechele, slightly off-topic, but what was the main reason for switching to Electron? There are other electron apps that wrap Messenger already like https://github.com/sindresorhus/caprine.

Not switching to Electron would've given more flexibility with macOS like resolving this issue.

[danielbuechele]

Electron just added Touch Bar support: https://electron.atom.io/blog/2017/03/08/touch-bar-support

[LanderN]

@danielbuechele I checked out the latest master version. I completely understand it is a WIP version, but an emoji button would be a lot more helpful than buttons to switch conversations. Keep up the good work! (I can only dream: thumbs up button? GIFs? Stickers?)

[danielbuechele]

With version 3.1.0 there is basic TouchBar support. But I fully agree that we should continue discussion on what the TouchBar support should look like. I want to give the current implementation a chance to try out, but I agree that at least the like-button should be available on the TouchBar.

[LanderN]

I would argue that an emoji button is at least as important, seeing it was there in the non-electron version and all native MacOS messaging apps. I see that the Electron TouchBar API does not (yet) provide an emoji button. A custom implementation would probably be overkill, although it would be very cool if it would display the facebook emoji instead of the Apple ones. 😎

[Vilscon]

I think it's interesting to note is that, as far as I can tell, the Touchbar integration (emojis) with version 2 is a native thing (text-input field) and not done custom by Daniel. That emojis are now missing from the touchbar in version 3 is simply unintended result of moving to Electron.

But Electron meanwhile introduced Touchbar support, so sooner than later we'll see it integrated into Goofy as well.

Currently running V2 and V3 side by side to test performance and energy usage.

[jklp]

Changed the way the touchbar works now - instead of using to swap between conversations, can now perform actions on the conversation e.g. mute, archive, like previous conversation, etc.

Was thinking about putting stickers / gifs etc but lets see how we do with these first (and we can look at adding more later).

This was completed in v3.3.6