Does anyone like Natural Scrolling

By the way, just tested this app... If you install it on Lion, it will allow you to independently control which way the trackpad respectively the mouse scrolls. Wonderful!

Much obliged again.

Thanks for your answer; as I said it was a genuine question, and I'd thought the 'apple spiel' remark (which seems to have sent a couple of people off into a bizarre spin), was clearly indicated as a light hearted jest by the deliberate inclusion of the 'silly' smiley: 😝 .

I don't dispute anyone's right to use their machine any way that suits them (why would I?) — I just wanted to know if I was missing out on something by not unlearning the way I've been doing it for years. I don't believe I am from your explanation, but I thank you for it.

Regards

Sw 🙂

(and as for you other guys talking about religion, conspiracies, dark empires....really, you need to chill out a bit, i'm still at a loss at where you were coming from!).

ChristianAWinter wrote:

I can't believe the discussion thread though. People infuse their comments and replies with religion and conspiracy theories instead of just having a clean technical discussion.

Not surprising. The OP's question doesn't lend itself to a technical discussion. It's all about personal preference, which is almost completely subjective.

And for the record, I took Softwater's "You've just been suckered into the Apple spiel..." as tongue in cheek, and my "conspiracy theory" response was in kind.

this has been suggested twice in this thread already, but softwater does not want to choose his preference, he is nagging about semantics.

I was resonding directly to ChristianAWinter who wrote

Anyone know of any way to get around that?

and had apparently missed the earlier Scroll Reverser mentions.

So-called "natural scrolling" is extremely UNnatural and despite trying very hard I cannot get used to it. Thankfully, Apple provides a way to turn it off. This is just a gratuitous, arbitrary change for the sake of change and it adds nothing at all to user friendliness: in fact it introduces confusion and annoyance. Very un-Apple-like.

Not at all. If you think of the 'map on the table' analogy, it's perfectly natural with the 'new' way of scrolling.

A great new feature.

Are you using a mouse or a trackpad? If mouse, then I can understand where you are coming from as it just doesn't work as intuitively as on a Magic Trackpad.

igmackenzie wrote:

Not at all. If you think of the 'map on the table' analogy, it's perfectly natural

If you think of hanging upside down like a bat, then anti-gravity is perfectly natural too. The point is whether the analogy is apt or not.

the 'new' way of scrolling.

Why 'new' ? It's new. Nothing metaphorical about that. It's also a pointless change for change's sake.

'New' to OS X. It's been happening in the real world since time immemorial!

igmackenzie wrote:

'New' to OS X. It's been happening in the real world since time immemorial!

Oh, please, no need to spare us your blushes. Next you're going to tell us 'scrolling' on a computer screen has something to do with 'scrolls' as in ancient documents...

'Scrolling' is a technical term in computer parlance that hasn't been around since "time immemorial"; it means the way you navigate a document or page that is larger than the screen. It has always and only been done one way until iOS.

I agree, with a touch screen, it is different. But as I said earlier in this thread (or maybe another one... ), the difference is in the navigational device — i.e., the cursor — and has nothing to do with whether you use a trackpad or a mouse. Your finger is the cursor (so to speak) in iOS. In OS X it isn't and that's what makes it unnatural.

I respect your opinion, but have to totally disagree. It's pointless trying to be rational with you on this subject, so I'll leave you to your ranting.

An interesting contradiction.

First you 'respect' my opinion, and then you call it 'ranting' — a term of disrespect.

Make your mind up... 😁

please softwater, we respect your opinion, but it this communication has detoriated to condemning and defending habits instead of technolgy.

Here my 2 cents,

The "old" way: You are looking through a window at some content, when you scroll down, you are actually moving the window down so the content moves up.

The "new" way: You are directly moving the content and not the window to it.

WIMP had us all confused. It took me a while and now I quite like it.

LexSchellings wrote:

...this communication has detoriated to condemning and defending habits instead of technolgy.

What is the title of this thread, please?