How do you mean? More than the usual start stop step-in step-over? With physical keys you can “home” your finger and press without drifting or looking down at the bar, and I find that much easier.
About the only thing I’ve found useful is when plugging in a projector and getting the “mirror or extend” buttons directly rather than having to remember which symbol it is. Every other case it’s felt inferior and gotten in the way (like display/sound/volume access in an app that uses it)
Well, I do use an app called HapticKey which provides haptic feedback, but yes I was able to consistently activate things on it without looking even before I started using the app. Most actions I used provided direct feedback on the screen (e.g. deleting, opening a tab, opening an info window, etc...) so feedback was less an issue.
I've found it really useful to be able to stop an app without doing anything that would require it loosing focus. Without this I need to do run something like
sleep 10; kill -STOP `pgrep app`
in the terminal and then scramble to get the app in the state I want.
No but thank you, I do know :) I know UXs are supposed to be discoverable these days, but FFS, do I just press random combinations of meta keys to find out what they do?
About the only thing I’ve found useful is when plugging in a projector and getting the “mirror or extend” buttons directly rather than having to remember which symbol it is. Every other case it’s felt inferior and gotten in the way (like display/sound/volume access in an app that uses it)