If that's the case, they need to make sure every other trackpad gesture is the same: spaces, task-switching, etc. With document scrolling with a trackpad they've chosen the latter. They should choose whether we're doing a "move the viewport" paradigm or a "move the thing we're looking at through the viewport" one. Then, it sounds like they've made the touch pad gestures inconsistent. The mouse wheel, though? There's no real link to that and the document in a physical sense. It makes sense to "grab" a document with our fingers and move the document rather than the view. Mouse wheel direction should not be tied to touchpad direction. It seems like Apple has really messed this up. (And if you set the scroll direction to "feel right" for two-finger swiping in Launchpad, then the four-finger swipe between Spaces feels backwards! Sigh.) Perhaps just seeing a screen covered with a grid of icons unconsciously triggers the "iOS expectations" region of our brains. For example, the two-finger swipe to the left or right used to switch between screens in Launchpad (described later) feels "backwards" when the scroll direction preference is set to the traditional, pre-Lion behavior.
Old habits aside, it may be that the difference between touching a screen directly and touching a separate device on a horizontal surface in front of the screen is just too great to justify a single input vocabulary.Įither way, there's sure to be an uncomfortable transition period for everyone. These two things align when using a mouse wheel with the "old" scrolling direction setting. The most common scrolling direction is downwards, and the most natural finger movement is curling inwards. Though the unification of scrolling gestures is logical, it's difficult to get used to after so many years of doing things the other way. Unfortunately, the settings are linked you can't have different values for each kind of input device. There's a second setting in the Trackpad preference pane, phrased in the opposite way. Thankfully, there is a preference to restore the old mapping of finger movement to scroll direction.
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