Why isn't two finger swiping native across the entire OS?

[Ruahrc]

Speaking of half-assed solutions. iCal's animations when browsing through months or years with a two-finger swipe seem really annoying to me. Especially since you have to wait for each individual animation to be finished before you're able to perform another swipe gesture.

This seems to be an OS-wide problem (too many animations that you are forced to wait through).

I don't know how you guys are getting 3-finger swiping. I only have the magic mouse (no trackpad) and there is no option for 3-finger swiping anything. As it is there is no way for me to swipe back/forwards in the Finder, no matter how many or how few fingers I use. It's super frustrating because I got very used to two-finger swiping all over the place in Snow Leopard.

Seems like moving from the mighty mouse to the magic mouse I lost mousing functionality (fewer buttons), and moving from SL to Lion I have lost even more. We're rapidly regressing to the olden days of the 1 button mouse here! Maybe it's time I give up and get a real mouse.

I don't consider it a good solution to have to turn to 3rd party programs to fix what Apple broke in the first place. This is just simply bad UI design or extremely sloppy coding, both things that seem to be anathema at Apple. Besides, I tried BTT in SL to "fix" the functionality of the magic mouse and it never seemed to work- I would have to manually start it up every time I booted.

Ruahrc

 

[Young Spade]

I don't consider it a good solution to have to turn to 3rd party programs to fix what Apple broke in the first place. This is just simply bad UI design or extremely sloppy coding, both things that seem to be anathema at Apple. Besides, I tried BTT in SL to "fix" the functionality of the magic mouse and it never seemed to work- I would have to manually start it up every time I booted.

Ruahrc

This. Which is why I was ecstatic to get a 2011 MBP with SL installed. They just put too much emphasis on UI and looks and not enough on functionality. They have a very interesting philosophy that, when executed correctly, makes our lives easy.

However, I think they followed it a bit too far; but they know that now, which is good, so I think the next iteration will be really amazing.