[bradgessler]

Same. The TouchBar needs a lot of tweaking at a software level. My problem is when I hit "Play" or "Pause" I expect my music to play or pause. The problem is that it's possible for other apps to steal focus for play and pause. For example if you're watching a video clip in Safari and hit Pause to stop your music after you started playing the video, it will pause the video.

The most annoying thing I'm dealing with at the moment is HipChat stealing focus of the play button. When that happens and I hit that play button, HipChat just plays the new message sound. Its so dumb.

The TouchBar is more complicated and awkward at the moment. In my opinion Apple needs to tweak the Keyboard settings to let me deal with these "stupid apps" and we all need to report TouchBar issues to third party apps doing it wrong like HipChat.

[mintplant]

> The most annoying thing I'm dealing with at the moment is HipChat stealing focus of the play button. When that happens and I hit that play button, HipChat just plays the new message sound. Its so dumb.

Is the HipChat app built on something like Electron? It could be they're using a hidden <audio> element to play the new message sound which the browser engine thinks you want to play/pause.

[WillKirkby]

> The most annoying thing I'm dealing with at the moment is HipChat stealing focus of the play button. When that happens and I hit that play button, HipChat just plays the new message sound. Its so dumb.

Yup, had this with WhatsApp web too. My suspicion is there's a hidden <audio> tag for the sound and safari's just exposing controls for that.

[Wildgoose]

I wonder if they would have been better leaving the Escape and Function keys alone and adding the Touch Bar as a (useful) additional interface rather than a (bad) replacement interface?