At first, I was really frustrated. In my head, I wanted to do the opposite direction necessary. After about 2 days, I was doing it without thinking. I had to hop on my old laptop to use the GRE prep course because they don't have it for Mac (b*stards! haha) and I was SO frustrated not being able to use gestures or scroll or anything. Hating the next 2 weeks of prepping!
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Do you enjoy the reverse-scrolling?
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to me what some call natural scrolling is the unatural way the way its been done for the last 30 years is the natural way but is just me
At first I found it very confusing and despite what it's called, not natural at all. However, ever one to embrace new things,I stuck with it for a while and I am now totally used to it on my MBP and of course it has become second nature on iOS devices.
However, when I go back to my work PC(Ubuntu), I keep forgetting that it's the old way on there. Also, when I use a USB mouse with my MBP, you have to scroll the opposite way on the scroll wheel too.
However, when I go back to my work PC(Ubuntu), I keep forgetting that it's the old way on there. Also, when I use a USB mouse with my MBP, you have to scroll the opposite way on the scroll wheel too.
Or at least with a mouse. Do you use a mouse or Magic Trackpad with your desktop?
Well, that's what natural scrolling does.
You slide up on the input device and the page moves up. Keep in mind that moving the page up moves your view of the page down.
Traditional scroll does the same thing, except you are manipulating the scroll bar (or view to the doc) instead of the document itself.
The question is whether it is more intuitive to move the document or the scroll bar. I suggest the former.
It's a bold move to change it, but it's a good move. It is intuitive (despite muscle memory) and consistent across mobile and desktop devices. It's also clearly explained to the user and easy to turn off.
BTW Despite using a PC with traditional scrolling for 9 hours a day and my home machine for just 2, I adapted to natural scrolling by the end of my first night. Now find myself messing up at work when using traditional scrolling. It took only 2 hours to overcome more the a decade of daily reinforced training. This demonstrates the intuitiveness of the new method.
It's funny because my mum always says scroll up, when I believe she means down, and vice versa. Now the technotard wins. Too bad she can barely move around a PC, haha.
No, it's incredibly stupid. But at least I can revert back to the better way, which unfortunately I can't say about the god-awful changes they made to Spaces. Lion will go down as one of the worst, most useless OS in history.
THe reasoning behind it is like moving a sheet of paper or a real item in life.
If you move a paper up, you see "down". The disconnect is that you aren't really moving anything, and it comes on top of a non inverted mouse.
If you touched the screen it would make sense, however, you're touching a pad under it.
I never did inverted views nor scrolling and I'm probably never going to switch.
If you move a paper up, you see "down". The disconnect is that you aren't really moving anything, and it comes on top of a non inverted mouse.
If you touched the screen it would make sense, however, you're touching a pad under it.
I never did inverted views nor scrolling and I'm probably never going to switch.
As I said in another thread, I don't find it any better or worse. It's just a difference in 'moving the page up' or 'moving the scroll bar down'. Certainly not some revelation as if we've been in bizarro world before like some make it out to be. But I'm used to it now and will stick with it.
I like it on the trackpad. Works like the iPhone or iPad (as if the trackpad were the screen).
With a mouse, no, I prefer the conventional way.
With a mouse, no, I prefer the conventional way.
No, I'm old and old fashioned, like the magic mouse better than anything I've used before.
