Touch Bar Support on MacOS

[ShadowBullet]

Would it be possible to perhaps add touch bar support to the Mac version of the App? Perhaps quick "at a glance" abilities. A few that come off the top of my head could be seeing network bandwidth utilization, the option to quit the session, exit out of the current window, etc. I totally understand if this is not possible however I believe it would be a nice addition.

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[myhaksown]

I'd like to see this too. The Touch Bar has TONS of uses. Obviously most or all of these will never see the light of day. It's definitely more of a wish list than an "oh my god we must have this or the whole app is ruined list". There are definitely some good ideas here that could be pushed to Windows, iOS, and the rest in their own way using overlays. The vast majority could not though....

For diagnosing network issues

• Live client side up and down data rates
• Live TX rate
• Live RSSI
• Live Noise

Having this data at our finger tips (literally with a Touch Bar) can help troubleshoot local network issues related to poor wifi cards in local hosts and/or other networking equipment in our homes. As we all know wifi cards and routers are not all created equal. The TP-Link Decos, Linksys Velops, and Netgear Orbi's of the world can do the heavy lifting needed for this type of low latency and high performance streaming. The AC-1200 single routers of the world generally cannot. Factor like distance from the router, number of active connections, and more make single router systems harder to work with.

For less distraction on the screen

Every so often when playing we all get the big red "POOR CONNECTION TO PC". As if we can't tell when we drop loads of frames. This prompt stays up for a short while longer than it needs to, however, I suspect it's not moonlights fault. I'm assuming it's is more related to how GeForce Experience informs the client of the poor connection. Of course, it's good to have this notification front and center for most users, but on a Touch Bar Mac something more similar to how it's handled on iOS would be nice. It's fine to have color and maybe swapping to a circle indicator would be great. A good example of colors for the indicator or text could still be: Green "Good Connection" and red "Poor Connection".

While in moonlights menus

Active Stream Buttons:

• "Disconnect" to end your stream from the host PC. The normal key combo of Control + Option + Shift + Q would still need to be available of course.
• "Quit Moonlight" to quickly disconnect from the host and quit the app. One of the best features of moonlight is that it is extremely resistant to system shutdowns and Command + Q while on an active stream. However sometimes you just need the app to quit quickly and long key combos are not great for that.

Game List Buttons:

• "Resume Game"
• "Quit Game"
• "Settings"

These are all pretty self explanatory as to their expected function and why they'd be nice to have.

Settings Menu Presets:

• "Low Bandwidth" for those times you're using your phone as a mobile hotspot to stream. Granted cellular networks these days reach easily into the 50mbps range (I hope I'm not alone here) it can also be nice to have a quick setting like this for those times you're at your grandmothers house where the internet is only 25Mbps. The ideal settings would be 720p, 30fps, stereo audio, vsync off, and HEVC.
• "High Bandwidth" a fantastic option if you're playing on your local network or if you have fiber internet and want the best you can get. Realistically this preset would be great for an Apple TV 4K as well. The ideal settings would be 4k, 60fps, 5.1 audio, vsync off, HEVC (when network performance dips HEVC will handle colors better since it has much less color blocking than H.264)