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How many of you turned off the "natural" scroll direction option?
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While I agree that i is very easy to get used to, and does seem to work going between the iPad and iMac, etc. It was super annoying using a Windows machine all day long and going home to my Apple products and my brain was still wired the wrong way.
Simply put until someone releases a Windows hack to allow it, I am sure others like me will find it too annoying to move back and forth daily between two modalities. What is intuitive on a screen is not using a mouse and a monito.
Simply put until someone releases a Windows hack to allow it, I am sure others like me will find it too annoying to move back and forth daily between two modalities. What is intuitive on a screen is not using a mouse and a monito.
I used it for a while, but then turned it off because I was trying to use natural scrolling on my mac with snow leopard and my work windows pc. Until it is universal throughout the industry, it is a non-starter for me.
I use Scroll Reverser in SL
I left natural scrolling on and like it quite a bit. I agree with others that it just feels better than the "old" way
Since I was having trouble switching back and forth between Lion and SL, I did a google search and found Scroll Reverser that reverses the scrolling in SL.
http://pilotmoon.com/scrollreverser/
Maybe it will help more people switch?
I left natural scrolling on and like it quite a bit. I agree with others that it just feels better than the "old" way
Since I was having trouble switching back and forth between Lion and SL, I did a google search and found Scroll Reverser that reverses the scrolling in SL.
http://pilotmoon.com/scrollreverser/
Maybe it will help more people switch?
Exactly how I feel about it. Scrolling on the MBA is for moving the scroll bar which means down, not up!
I feel that Lion is step 1 in bringing us a Touchscreen Mac but until then the only reason to make this default is because Apple wanted to see what percentage of its users trust them blindly enough to change the definition of "natural".
The iPhone/iPad touchscreen metaphor makes sense because you're touching a screen, but on a PC then NEITHER way is "Natural" since the concept of scrolling a remote device in order to move a virtual page is unnatural movement. The ONLY reason we know how to move a cursor or how to scroll a webpage is because its learned behavior thats embedded in muscle memory over years of practice. So why make users "unlearn" something that they've accepted as natural?
Anyway, I get it, there's some legit excuses for why this "makes sense" but just because you can get used to it doesn't mean it should be the default.
The iPhone/iPad touchscreen metaphor makes sense because you're touching a screen, but on a PC then NEITHER way is "Natural" since the concept of scrolling a remote device in order to move a virtual page is unnatural movement. The ONLY reason we know how to move a cursor or how to scroll a webpage is because its learned behavior thats embedded in muscle memory over years of practice. So why make users "unlearn" something that they've accepted as natural?
Anyway, I get it, there's some legit excuses for why this "makes sense" but just because you can get used to it doesn't mean it should be the default.
I see it this way:
Both scrolling options are the same, honestly. They're both smooth and they both are efficient.
Apple decided to go with the Natural scrolling direction, and it seems they are going to stick to it for a long time to come. So I decided to get used to it. I was used to it within 20 minutes.
Anyways,
in the web browser, for instance, when you swipe down it feels like you're "pulling" the page towards you. Honestly I don't know why reverse scrolling was ever used.
Both scrolling options are the same, honestly. They're both smooth and they both are efficient.
Apple decided to go with the Natural scrolling direction, and it seems they are going to stick to it for a long time to come. So I decided to get used to it. I was used to it within 20 minutes.
Anyways,
in the web browser, for instance, when you swipe down it feels like you're "pulling" the page towards you. Honestly I don't know why reverse scrolling was ever used.
The first thing I did when I first ran Lion is to find out how to turn "natural scrolling" off. There's nothing natural about forcing me to unlearn over half a decade of trained muscle memory for no good reason. And that's coming from someone who's been using iPhones and iPads for the last 3 years.
I love it, at first I hated it, specifically for the reason that the mouse is the same way as the trackpad, but now it's second nature. Also at first, when I would go back to windows based pc (like at work) I would keep scrolling a different way, but now I'm used to it, I guess my brain had learnt which systems scrolls which way!! LOL
After a day or two to get used to it, I have to say scrolling the new way feels completely, well... natural.
Got used to it very quickly. The new way the Mail window is laid out is another matter. Each message takes two lines, so less fit in the window. I tried it for a few weeks but couldn't stand it any longer and set it back to the old way.