Mavericks Magic Mouse Scrolling Issues
Many Magic Mouse scrolling issues have been reported and I'd like to add a list that affect several of my Macs:
1. Issues in iTunes
- When you are in the iTunes store, the top coverflow allows you to use your magic mouse to swipe left and right
- However, it does not swipe like an iPhone where you can re-swipe midway and instead can only do a full swipe
- You can test this by doing 2 quick swipes and the result is the swipe will stop altogether
- This should work like an iPhone where you can control the swipes at any point during the animation
2. Issues with Finder windows
- In very long lists of files and folders, if you scroll 2 or 3 times the ability to scroll stops
- This either requires you to put the mouse focus on something else and try scrolling again
- Scrolling should not stop working
- This is less apparent with inertia turned on
- However, intertia turned on makes working in other applications such as Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator almost impossible
3. Issues with Mail 7.0x
- The latest update still has scrolling issues where it stops working after prolonged use
- The only fix is to quit or force-quit to bring back scrolling capability
4. Issues in iPhoto (The following is with inertia turned off)
- When scrolling long list of photos, the speed of the scroll can suddenly change with variable acceration
- This results in jumping forward too quickly
- Mountain Lion was worse, however the scolling behavior is hard to predict in long lists
- There are various mouse scrolling 3rd party apps but finding a speed is quite difficult
I'm sure there are other mouse scrolling issues but hope these issues can be improved. Unfortunately, some of these issues have persisted since pre-Lion releases.
