linuxmemes @lemmy.world dewritochan @lemmy.dbzer0.com 1y ago

The Design is Very Human

having a moment here in gnome

to everyone pointing out that this is for touchpads;

a: it's awful on that too

b: note the mouse in the example given

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This is an affront to nature

Looking at you Apple who has this option on by default.
- This is actually pretty nice for touchpad. It's atrocious for scrollwheel though.
  
  And the magic mouse famously doesn't have a scroll wheel.
  
  I use unnatural for both. It feels like inverted mode for FPS for me. I blame GoldenEye
  
  It’s so frustrating on iPadOS because there’s one setting that controls touchscreen scrolling and mouse wheel scrolling. So I have to decide if I want my fingers to feel dumb or the mouse or occasionally use to feel dumb. iPadOS is so fucking bad and left to languish.
  
  I don't use i-Infrastructure, but apparently there's an app for that. BetterTouchTool separates the two functions.
- That's the first thing I fix when I set up a new Mac. Second thing is install BetterTouchTool. It lets you separate mouse and trackpad options, so the scroll wheel can be right and the trackpad backwards.
  
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  Every few months I find a new BTT option to use on all my machines. Glad I purchased a lifetime license.
  
  Then again maybe I should have bought a subscription to keep him incentivized...
  
  Nice me too. BTT and unclutter are my 2 critical Mac apps.
- I hate how Apple unifies the mouse scroll and trackpad scroll interpretation, so I really love this project: https://github.com/ther0n/UnnaturalScrollWheels
- IIRC it's default in Windows and GNOME now too. It's a very strange default.
  
  Ok that’s even worse. I get that its to make it the same as when you push the screen up on your phone blah blah blah
  
  But they can all die and burn in hell
  
  it actually wasn't in this gnome install from last night, i just happened to run across the setting while looking for something else and made the meme. but i do seem to recall having to fix this before in years past.
  
  It's the default for trackpads, which makes sense IMO
  
  iirc windows uses classic direction and doesn’t have an option to change it to “natural”, meaning if you happened to get used to “natural” you have to do some janky registry thing to flip it
  
  nope
- We use Apple Computers at work and when I go to someone's computer and realize that "natural scrolling" is on I can't help but judge them internally. Monsters.
- It took me awhile to figure that out.
- Apple really only cares about you if you use the Magic Mouse which has a touch surface instead of a scroll wheel. It makes sense on the Magic Mouse but not on any other mouse

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