Reverse scrolling is a dangerous move

[lemonade-maker]

Makes no diff to me. I decided to conform to the new way and it works fine.

 

[antmarobel]

I have to admit: It's strange! But I have to try till I have to get used to it

 

[Cougarcat]

I got used to it very fast and it all seems very natural now on trackpad, but when i plug in my mouse it keeps working the same way with the scrolling wheel. Pretty annoying.

Aha! So I was right (see my post above.) This move is all about keeping gestures consistent across devices.

 

[Steve Ballmer]

I can't say I hate it, but I did revert to traditional scrolling rather quickly. It makes sense when one is physically manipulating the screen via touch. But it makes no sense when manipulating the screen indirectly using a mouse or trackpad.

 

[Steve Ballmer]

I noticed this as well! It is the same pattern as what is behind folders on iOS and on the multitasking bar.

Did you also notice that the dashboard background has been carried over from when iOS 4 was first demoed. It showed this pattern as the folder background, which was promptly replaced, but now is back again!

Yes, that Dashboard background is ugly and clashes with the other background being used. Hopefully they get rid of it and use the "canvas" background (have no idea what else to call it) for Dashboard, as it seems everything else is using it system-wide.

Thats just for the bounce effect, it doesnt have anything to do with scrolling orientation. I think when they do usability testing they will get rid of it completely, its just dumb. At the very least it will be disabled by default instead of enabled. It might not even be meant to be a feature on all devices, it could be for testing some new input device.

No, I think Apple is quite adamant about not only having it, but having it on by default. Because trackpads that lack multi-touch cannot disable the feature at all.

I already changed it back to normal. The scrolling system is worse in some other way as well, it is not as smooth as it used to be.

You're using a developer preview. The focus right now is getting major bugs fixed and features completed. Minor things like smoothing out animations will come much later.

I use the trackpad of my early 2008 MacBook and this is what I see in my Trackpad Preferences (where I already looked right after the installation):
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10644330/MR...2011/Screen Shot 2011-02-25 at 9.39.23 PM.png

Am I blind?

Trackpads that do not support multi-touch cannot revert to traditional scrolling. However, according to the known issues listed in the seed notes, it's a known issue, implying that a toggle is intended but simply wasn't ready for the released build.

I was thinking the same thing when I first heard the scrolling was inverted, but honestly, I got used to it in a few hours and now it's just natural for me. If you think about it, it makes more sense.

It makes sense when directly touching the screen. It doesn't make sense when manipulating the screen indirectly.

 

[ipodtouch4]

Merge

I am a fan of iOS, and a huge fan of OSX but the merging between the two doesn't seem right. Also, on all screenshots I have not seen any icon/items on the desktop. Are there any folders like in Snow Leopard available on the desktop.

 

[Hellhammer]

You're using a developer preview. The focus right now is getting major bugs fixed and features completed. Minor things like smoothing out animations will come much later.

I am aware of that. It's not the smoothness of scrolling which is fine but when you scroll, it does not "slide" like it used to. Like if I scroll in 10.6, I can lift my fingers and it's still "sliding". In Lion, when I lift my fingers, it stops scrolling. It's not that big deal but something I noticed immediately.

 

[Cougarcat]

I am aware of that. It's not the smoothness of scrolling which is fine but when you scroll, it does not "slide" like it used to. Like if I scroll in 10.6, I can lift my fingers and it's still "sliding". In Lion, when I lift my fingers, it stops scrolling. It's not that big deal but something I noticed immediately.

It sounds like you have inertia scrolling turned off. Check your trackpad prefs.

 

[Steve Ballmer]

I am a fan of iOS, and a huge fan of OSX but the merging between the two doesn't seem right. Also, on all screenshots I have not seen any icon/items on the desktop. Are there any folders like in Snow Leopard available on the desktop.

Where did you get the notion that iOS and Mac OS X are being merged? Lion is gaining some new features that were inspired by those in iOS, and nothing more.

And it seems that by default, only external drives show up on the Desktop. But all you have to do is hit CMD+J and show what you want, including local hard disks and network drives.

 

[Hellhammer]

It sounds like you have inertia scrolling turned off. Check your trackpad prefs.

It is enabled but still "lags". Looks like BetterTouchTool is causing it as disabling it made it back to normal.

 

[roblawton]

I think this will be easy to get used to.

Even when I use a PC at work and Mac at home, I'll just get used to using the scroll-wheel at work to scroll; Then my Magic Trackpad/MBA Trackpad to 'flick' I prefer the rubber-band scrolling/flicking anyway...

I guess I'm just used to it on my iPhone.

 

[baryon]

First, you can change the scrolling, and second, you can't really scroll on the trackpad with PCs so there is no "direction of scrolling" anyway, you can only use the scroll wheel of the mouse, which is very different from a trackpad or a Magic Mouse (which is basically like a mobile trackpad).