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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

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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[–] [email protected] 169 points 1 year ago (7 children)

This is an affront to nature

Looking at you Apple who has this option on by default.

[–] [email protected] 106 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is actually pretty nice for touchpad. It's atrocious for scrollwheel though.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And the magic mouse famously doesn't have a scroll wheel.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I use unnatural for both. It feels like inverted mode for FPS for me. I blame GoldenEye

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I don't use i-Infrastructure, but apparently there's an app for that. BetterTouchTool separates the two functions.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

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...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Nice me too. BTT and unclutter are my 2 critical Mac apps.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

I hate how Apple unifies the mouse scroll and trackpad scroll interpretation, so I really love this project: https://github.com/ther0n/UnnaturalScrollWheels

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

IIRC it's default in Windows and GNOME now too. It's a very strange default.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's the default for trackpads, which makes sense IMO

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It took me awhile to figure that out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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