Show HN: UnnaturalScrollWheels – Better scroll wheel settings for macOS
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Re: Show HN: UnnaturalScrollWheels – Better scroll wheel settings for macOS
#2As someone who prefers Natural Scroll (and who understands that there are people who don't), why would someone want Natural Scroll on one interaction method and not on another? That feels like confusion waiting to happen, IMHO.
Re: Show HN: UnnaturalScrollWheels – Better scroll wheel settings for macOS
#3As someone who prefers Natural Scroll (and who understands that there are people who don't), why would someone want Natural Scroll on one interaction method and not on another? That feels like confusion waiting to happen, IMHO.
Natural scroll direction while using a mouse isn't traditionally how one would use a mouse - but the issue is if you set the scroll direction to change for your mouse (on a mac) it also sets it for your trackpad.
Re: Show HN: UnnaturalScrollWheels – Better scroll wheel settings for macOS
#4As someone who prefers Natural Scroll (and who understands that there are people who don't), why would someone want Natural Scroll on one interaction method and not on another? That feels like confusion waiting to happen, IMHO.
honestly, if this popped up more than 2 weeks ago i'd wonder the same thing. i love the way the mac trackpad works, including the scroll direction. but i plugged a mouse in and was doing some gaming stuff. it is unintuitive as hell to have the scroll wheel go the 'opposite' way for zooming on an rts. i changed the setting for the mouse, and later when on the trackpad again, wondered why the hell it was backwards. no idea why 1 setting, in 2 locations, uses the same config value.
Re: Show HN: UnnaturalScrollWheels – Better scroll wheel settings for macOS
#5As someone who prefers Natural Scroll (and who understands that there are people who don't), why would someone want Natural Scroll on one interaction method and not on another? That feels like confusion waiting to happen, IMHO.
I have been looking for a solution to this problem for a very long time and my reasoning is that on a trackpad, natural makes a lot of sense intuitively, since you are "pushing" the document (page/app/whatever) the direction you want it to move.
Whereas when I am using a mouse I feel like I the document is below the mouse more or less and when I move the scrollwheel it is physically moving the document as if it was tied to the scrollwheel.
Not sure if that makes any sense, as this is just some internal feelings on it, but I have beeen manually toggling the natural scroll when i plug and unplug my mouse ever since I started using MacOs
Re: Show HN: UnnaturalScrollWheels – Better scroll wheel settings for macOS
#6As someone who prefers Natural Scroll (and who understands that there are people who don't), why would someone want Natural Scroll on one interaction method and not on another? That feels like confusion waiting to happen, IMHO.
I like Natural Scroll on the trackpad because my mind somewhat subconsciously maps the page onto the trackpad. Then, scrolling on the trackpad is like dragging the page up or down with my fingers.
Mentally, the same mapping does not happen with a scroll wheel. So it’s a weird psychological block when I scroll down with a scroll wheel and the page goes up.
Re: Show HN: UnnaturalScrollWheels – Better scroll wheel settings for macOS
#7As someone who prefers Natural Scroll (and who understands that there are people who don't), why would someone want Natural Scroll on one interaction method and not on another? That feels like confusion waiting to happen, IMHO.
I have always used a mouse when scrolling down makes the page go down, and on the trackpad scrolling down makes the page go up. It makes sense to me somehow, probably because I'm used to the input method of a phone's scrolling and so that transfers to a trackpad naturally.
Re: Show HN: UnnaturalScrollWheels – Better scroll wheel settings for macOS
#8As someone who prefers Natural Scroll (and who understands that there are people who don't), why would someone want Natural Scroll on one interaction method and not on another? That feels like confusion waiting to happen, IMHO.
I get confused about which is natural and which is normal scroll but I have subconscious muscle memory, so if this tools helps people that for whatever reason were trained to have this subconscious muscle memory / why not? It's all pretty arbitrary anyway. Aren't your eyes bolted on upside down and your brain has a layer that inverts it?
Re: Show HN: UnnaturalScrollWheels – Better scroll wheel settings for macOS
#9Thank you. I've been using Scroll Reverser[1], but it hasn't been updated to fully support Catalina (it works, but the installation process was not updated to request the permissions in Catalina).
I'll check out UnnaturalScrollWheels to see if it's a good replacement.
Re: Show HN: UnnaturalScrollWheels – Better scroll wheel settings for macOS
#10I used to use something like this for my mouse, but started using a trackpad full-time so I didn’t need it anymore. Recently I’ve started using a mouse again, but without something like this installed, and now I feel like I like natural scrolling for mice too :/ Must be something you get used to.