In Lion there are two options for scroll direction: Natural is where content tracks finger movement. Unnatural is where the direction is opposite to finger movement.
Traditionally most of us are used to the unnatural scrolling, but looking at the video the natural makes more sense.
What's your preference?
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I immediately started using the new "natural scrolling" and I would recommend most users do this. I say this because I think the marriage of OS-X and iOS is only just beginning and I believe touch functionality will only continue to grow. The day when desktop Macs have touch screens is around the corner, even though Jobs denies it currently. So I think making this change is better when you think about yourself as a user over the long haul.
For me switching was very easy. It took about a day to get used to it. Now that I'm a week in I don't even think about it anymore. You should try and look at it as if your window is a window and the content is a piece of paper sitting beyond the window. You need to drag the paper around in order to make it visible through the window.
I'm also using a trackpad, perhaps with a mouse it would be more difficult.
This is a little off topic, but am I alone in hating the application resume on start up feature? I hope to god Apple introduces a system preference to stop this.
I agree with you.
There is a checkbox when you are shutting down that allows you to disable resuming work where you left off.
Yeah, but it doesn't stick. You need to turn it off every time. I lug my laptop around for work and when I'm on the go I often forget. I'd like a preference that sticks once applied.
On a touch screen, natural scrolling makes sense. You gesture up, the page goes down, just as you would expect the physical motion would do. However, on a track pad where the user does not physically interact with the display, the natural scrolling is very unnatural and counter-intuitive. I gesture down on my track pad, I fully expect the page to scroll down.
Natural scrolling for a laptop or computer takes lessons learned from mobile device UI a step too far.
I no like.
Without my sense of direction, I don't know where I'd be.
When I'm using the Apple Magic Trackpad I use the natural scrolling. But when I'm doing serious work in Adobe apps, I use the Magic Mouse and the old-school scrolling.
I can tell you that you SHOULD get a Magic Trackpad and get used to using it, because the days of the mouse are numbered... and the time is counting down quickly - at least for Mac users.
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I agree. I used it for a while and I loved it. Mouse is not as comfortable anymore. Tablet still works best for me.
First I hated all.
but now I'm in love.
it takes a week to you learn it.
I'm testing a all reversed Magic Trackpad orientation too =]
I think 0 degree inclination is the best angle for it.
yes I'm brazilian xD
You can say it's more natural, but it's not saving you any time or making you any more precise. How is it actually "better"?
It depends on the device. I think with touch devices (iPhone, iPad, laptops with touch pads, Apple's Magic Pad) the new default scrolling behavior works very well. However, with a mouse wheel it feels backwards and counterintuitive.
This is my thought too. I am now used to the natural scrolling on my MBAir using the track pad but no matter how hard I try when I am at work using a scroll wheel mouse it feels wrong no matter how hard I try to force myself.
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6 of one, half dozen of the other. I once worked in a place where you rode around on these carts that had reverse throttles. You know how a motorcycle works - you twist the throttle back to give it more gas. These carts were the opposite - you twisted forward to go forward and backwards to move backwards. Took a day or so to get used to the idea of not twisting it back every time you wanted to go forward like a motorcycle. Of course at the end of the night, every time I got on the bike to go home - the first twist was forward because I was acclimated to the carts after 8 hours. Then the brain compensates back the other way for the ride home.
There is NOTHING "Natural" about any of the OSX stuff! It's all a lame rippoff of Microsoft technological advancements!
I'm serious, how about you?
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I had to shut it back to the "normal" way, beings I just have a mouse to work with. I don't want to deal with confusion between my home machine and my work machine any more than I already do. (I have a Microsoft PC ergonomic keyboard hooked up to my work machine, which rawks, but the software to program the command keys refuses to work with my machine, so I'm already bass-ackwards with the use of my quick keys between what's normal on a Mac and what the Microsoft keyboard makes me do.)
And YES, I agree the re-launch of the last open program is highly annoying. I also hope they set something up to disable this permanently in the near future.
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