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

tongodeon

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

Jul 05, 2011 19:59

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 ( Read more... )

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Comments 11

mmcirvin July 6 2011, 15:16:13 UTC

A guess: Apple's planning on releasing touchscreen MacBooks, and they think having the scroll gestures default to opposite directions would be weird.

new APIs steeltoe July 6 2011, 16:36:19 UTC

I hear the biggest improvement is the abundance of new APIs but I can't find a list, have you checked them out at all?

earthlien July 8 2011, 04:39:24 UTC

I don't have any iDevice. But on computers with trackpads I have long been annoyed that moving my finger does not move the thing-I'm-looking at, it "moves" (doesn't move) the abstract window over the thing-I'm-looking-at.

So it sounds like they're doing something that will make me less annoyed. Cool.

crisper July 9 2011, 06:27:17 UTC

There is much I could-but-can't say about the internal (and seeding community) debate around the scroll direction. Suffice it to say, I was a True Hater for months, the a Grudging Acceptor for months - trackpads, sure, but never mice! - and now I prefer it, even on most sorts of mice and *definitely* on trackpads. I would actually love to see it brought into a Snow Leopard update so as to allow retro-continuity, but that ain't gonna happen.