This OSX 10.7 "Lion" review is mostly about scroll direction defaults, just warning you

[tongodeon]

I've been using the new OSX 10.7 "Lion" for about 12 hours, and there's one feature that really busts my balls. Scroll bars still work the way they always did. Move it up, the window goes down. Move it down, the window goes up. But the default behavior for mouse wheels and two-finger scrolling is reversed

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[flwyd]

So if someone's happy with 10.6 and doesn't care about disk encryption, would you recommend they not upgrade? Or is it more of a "meh, but might as well" situation?

Is there a way to get the "old" Mail view?

[crisper]

Yes, there is a preference to set it back to "classic" layout.

Most of the Lion UI changes can be pref-reversed for long-time MOSX users who have deeply ingrained muscle memory.

[waider]

"please don't ever show me goatse when I open a new Finder window"

I would vote for this option.

[giantlaser]

I would vote against it. The voices of thousands of first-goatse'd people cry out for justice. Against Soren.

[bsdcat]

Adobe Acrobat Reader used to scroll this way as well... I'm pretty sure they've stopped, because it was "weird."

[lrk]

I could not agree more. Blogs ARE for bitching!

Oh, also about the fact that everybody seems to be applying things they learned from iPhone usability to desktop and web, despite the fact that the different mediums have fundamentally different input methods. They seem to be ignoring the fact that things are different on touch screens. Not always better. Just different. We don't need all the same metaphors for interaction when we're using a mouse and keyboard, which some of us old folk insist on doing.

We also don't need all of our visual designs to include mock woodgrain, but I'll bitch about that on my own blogs.

[mmcirvin]

While I admit that switching sometimes trips me up, it seems reasonable to me that the direction of a scroll gesture should be opposite for a trackpad as opposed to a touchscreen.

In fact, the micro-trackpad on my Android phone even uses a direction opposed to that of the screen's scroll gesture, since the trackpad controls the movement of the cursor or focus selection within the window.