Reality: a regular terminal that starts in the notch and expands to normal window.
I guess it's somehow based on the terminal that was in Quake but that was only really used for issuing quake commands, not really for being a posix-compliant, VT-100 compatible terminal.
[Update: it was quickly pointed out that "Quake terminal" is a term of art for one line terminal that can easily expand. I am a heavy terminal user but genuinely did not know that term was commonplace. Grumpiness retracted.]
https://github.com/Guake/guake
https://babbagefiles.xyz/quake-drop-down-terminal-history/
Yakuake, Kuake (2003), etc.
I'll let my original comment stand since it seems likely that at least some others will have the same impedance mismatch as I did.
In any case, thanks for pointing it out.
By the bye, I know Foone hates their threads being posted here, so I won't, but I absolutely adore their hardware and software finagling. It's also made me a better developer!
I figured this was the natural evolution of “hacking random device to be able to play DOOM” to “hacking the notch on my computer to play Quake.”
https://www.karam.io/blog/2018/turning-i-term-in-to-a-quake-...
That said, they seem to be tempting fate by using "Quake" in the name and a logo very similar to Q1. Especially risky since they appear intent on selling it.
QuakeNotch Logo: https://quakenotch.com/_next/static/media/QuakeNotch.84f1df8...
Trademarks:
https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=75350547&caseSearchType=U...
https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=75350175&caseSearchType=U...
> 26.01.03 - Circles, incomplete (more than semi-circles); Incomplete circles (more than semi-circles)
the ontology on this stuff is fascinating. That's a fastener?
That's just hilarious :D
I wouldn’t be opposed to paying for a dropdown terminal that worked as well as or better than TotalTerminal did.
[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsanity [1]: https://totalterminal.binaryage.com/
1) It needs an option to be the exact height of the menu bar when collapsed. On my system, it's ~4 pts taller then the menu bar, which means it intrudes into the chrome of maximized windows. Ewww. The goal is to reclaim wasted space, not take more!
2) It pretty consistently drops frames when expanding on a system under light memory pressure. Seems like there's likely a few pages that need to be wired to keep it from needing to page in too much on activation? Tracing memory accesses on activation, clustering those functions (with order files) and variables (with linker scripts) to a minimal number of pages, and wiring those pages could make this better. Dropping frames is a bug!
2.5) I don't use my laptop for music. Let me turn off the red "note" that launches Music, because (a) it's useless and (b) it's really buggy for those of us who have never accepted Apple Music terms of service -- full UI lock-up when waiting for permission. Instead, let me put something useful there. A CPU meter would be amazing! Or even better, an indication of whether a terminal is still executing a command / done and ready for input -- not sure how to hook this in general, but would be great.
When working on projects that meld digital and physical realities, ergonomics and aesthetics become a hyperfocus and observations like this are vital for course correcting.
Just kidding, Chromium can handle it too; it just seems a bit heavy for Firefox. But sometimes you wonder why on earth you have to add such resource-hungry effects.
It just does not look as smooth as QuakeNotch :-D
The medium truly is the massage. The physical form in which information is being delivered (screen with notch) is beginning to work us over on a concept as old as the terminal.
Yeah, Yakuake; TotalTerminal; and others kept the Quake terminal flame alive, but now that game UI choice interacts with physical reality!
Which reinforces my spicy take...
Spicy take: Skeumorphism is a necessary and probably effective guard rail against tech usage unmooring us from physical reality.
Plus, this augmented reality take on the concept is taking that idea to at least eight strange new places.
Thankfully you don't see an artistic representation of a 3.5 floppy representing an app's "save" function yes-and-ing people into messiah complexes and public mental breakdowns.
All that being said, I am giving this a spin when my work laptop arrives! (Worst case I use the, mostly(?), iTerm2 functional equivalent because that worked pretty well for my needs when I set it up many moons ago.)
It's less of adding a notch, more of extending the screen upwards except where the camera is.
It didn't take away from any previous screen real estate.
(It does make something like Bartender even more necessary than before though. It's inexcusable Apple doesn't have a built-in solution for properly handling menu bar icons. But that's still a problem even without the notch.)
1. Have a bezel instead. This reduces the overall screen height and pixel count.
2. Have the camera stick above the screen instead. Lenovo did that on some Thinkpads recently. The problem is that it is still sticking out when closed.
2a. Fold the camera somehow. Requires the display to be thick enough to allow that, at least in that one area.
3. Don't have the camera at all.
Given that Macs normally always have the menu bar on top except when the app is completely fullscreen, the first approach makes the most sense - it allows the menu bar to be placed into the space reclaimed by removing the bezel.
https://guide-images.cdn.ifixit.com/igi/5JIdAqwLsxWAFAyZ
Apple isn't doing off-the-shelf. This already is as seamless as you get for the moment. They're not putting the notch in for fun.
It has functionality for showing active music. I was clicking around to try and disable this functionality. In doing so it launched Apple Music (software which I never use). MacOS asked for my permission to allow QuakeNotch to control music. I could not click on anything and had a permanent rainbow wheel. The force quit menu did not show QuakeNotch so I needed to hold the power button. That's an instant uninstall for me.
I noticed that was a GIF because I have an extension to not autoplay GIFs [1], it is great to don't have to see moving stuff without consent. Actually, the extension can be better, I would prefer to have a play button to GIFs/see a "GIF" label on the image, now I have to change the setting of the extension and reload the page. I'm not a developer and try to do the extension with Claude but didn't work, if someone knows an extension with that feature let me know! I looked for it and can't find it, it may be a great opportunity to create one, devs!
[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/gifpuase/
'just a terminal' is maybe also a legit term of art and entirely useful for somebody out there. But much less cool that we were hoping for!
I thought it was so huge because they planned on adding FaceID but that never materialized.
Now it’s just a gigantic notch and it still has the ability to block UI elements and completely break the functionality of the menu bar unless you plug in an external monitor.
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“I don’t know what I expected.”
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