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Re: An open-source mouse and trackpad utility for Mac

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Post by tambourine_man »

threatofrain wrote: post #59
WastingMyTime89 wrote: post #46

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No one is complaining A is not B. Everyone is complaining that macOS lacks some fairly basic UX options and is being neglected by Apple which corrects these flaws at a glacial pace.

On a tangent, I don't see what's wrong with complaining that A ≠ B. Complaining is just the precursor to voting with your feet, and having more or less than competitor offerings is a natural point of comparison in a customer's mind.

Sure, but there’s a limit. You wouldn’t complain that there’s no beef on a vegan restaurant.

The Mac’s thing has always been resizable overlapping windows with a menu bar at the top of the screen. If you’re hoping for a great tiling window manager, you’ll be disappointed. You can kind of get a poor man’s tiling setup with some hacks, but it’s not what the platform is about.

Re: An open-source mouse and trackpad utility for Mac

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Post by DaiPlusPlus »

ayemel wrote: post #90
DaiPlusPlus wrote: post #31

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> The lack of mouse acceleration in Windows is what make it feel, to m Windows has had built-in acceleration since Windows XP (maybe 2000?) - it's the "Enhance pointer precision" option in the (classic) Mouse control panel. There's also an acceleration curve you can customize, but there's no built-in GUI editor, but the data's all in the HKCU\Control Panel\Mouse registry keys.

Ahh interesting so it’s not enabled by default?

It's been enabled by-default since (at least) Windows 7.

Re: An open-source mouse and trackpad utility for Mac

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Post by copperx »

ktosobcy wrote: post #100
thesuitonym wrote: post #40

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Not the OP, but for one thing, natural scrolling is just an awful idea for mouse users, it was designed for touch screens, and translates pretty well to trackpads (Although it broke with over a decade of user experience), but it's completely unnatural on a mouse. Unfortunately, if you're a user who switches between a mouse and the trackpad, Mac OS only let's you pick one.

Why would you need a mouse when using macOS trackpads? Before switching to MBP (about 10 years ago) I couldn't fathom using trackpad but then after a couple of days of usage I was so hooked up and it _felt_ so natural than I can't imagine using mouse nowadays...

While I agree that Mac trackpads are fantastic, there's still a need for variety. For some reason, I don't feel at home using a trackpad in certain programs, such as Photoshop. The Magic Mouse feels better in that scenario, like I have a little more control.

For general computer use and coding, I prefer the trackpad.

Re: An open-source mouse and trackpad utility for Mac

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Post by furyofantares »

horsawlarway wrote: post #78
furyofantares wrote: post #69

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> natural scrolling is just an awful idea for mouse users I'm the opposite - I was surprised by how much of an improvement I found natural scrolling after decades of computer use. I now use an autohotkey script when on windows to get the same behavior as I get on macOS. I can certainly see the switching cost not being worth it and wanting a setting that applies to the mouse and not the touchpad, but I'm failing to se…

> I now use an autohotkey script when on windows to get the same behavior as I get on macOS. Is there something specific here that's not just toggling the scroll direction to the right value in window's settings menu? It's had it for years at this point. > I can certainly see the switching cost not being worth it and wanting a setting that applies to the mouse and not the touchpad, but I'm failing to see how it's any…

I've just had the script for over a decade, I didn't know they added it to Windows finally.

Re: An open-source mouse and trackpad utility for Mac

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Post by eyelidlessness »

ktosobcy wrote: post #100
thesuitonym wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not the OP, but for one thing, natural scrolling is just an awful idea for mouse users, it was designed for touch screens, and translates pretty well to trackpads (Although it broke with over a decade of user experience), but it's completely unnatural on a mouse. Unfortunately, if you're a user who switches between a mouse and the trackpad, Mac OS only let's you pick one.

Why would you need a mouse when using macOS trackpads? Before switching to MBP (about 10 years ago) I couldn't fathom using trackpad but then after a couple of days of usage I was so hooked up and it _felt_ so natural than I can't imagine using mouse nowadays...

I generally prefer the trackpad for productive tasks, but I never got the hang of using it for my weird Minesweeper obsession. A mouse has a lot of non-input leverage and physical control that’s very hard to replicate (for me, others swear by trackpads even for high pace, high accuracy pointer input like this).

Re: An open-source mouse and trackpad utility for Mac

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Post by phire »

ktosobcy wrote: post #100
thesuitonym wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not the OP, but for one thing, natural scrolling is just an awful idea for mouse users, it was designed for touch screens, and translates pretty well to trackpads (Although it broke with over a decade of user experience), but it's completely unnatural on a mouse. Unfortunately, if you're a user who switches between a mouse and the trackpad, Mac OS only let's you pick one.

Why would you need a mouse when using macOS trackpads? Before switching to MBP (about 10 years ago) I couldn't fathom using trackpad but then after a couple of days of usage I was so hooked up and it _felt_ so natural than I can't imagine using mouse nowadays...

Sometimes I'm using it as a laptop, the touchpad is absolutely great, I wouldn't do it any other way.

Other times, I have it plugged into a monitor and a desktop keyboard. In those cases, I want a real mouse plugged in.

Re: An open-source mouse and trackpad utility for Mac

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Post by guiambros »

pantulis wrote: post #42
ahstilde wrote: post #9

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what are your other mandatory installs?

- BetterTouchTool - Folder Peek

+1, I can't live without BTT on Mac. From keyboard shortcuts, window management, controlling apps, overall customizations, HUD messages, and much, much more.

I wish BTT were multi-OS, so I could just copy the configuration across platforms, instead of having to recreate from scratch (Linux), or not at all (ChromeOS).

Re: An open-source mouse and trackpad utility for Mac

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Post by gergi »

billbrown wrote: post #82
ahstilde wrote: post #9

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what are your other mandatory installs?

Alfred, Karabiner-Elements (for the hyper key functionality), Shortcat, TextSniper, Moom, Sublime Text, iTerm 2, my .bash_profile. These are all apps for which I have long-standing muscle memory. If I use a new computer, I'm still pressing the keys but nothing happens and I have to remember how to do the things the normal way.

Each of the features provided by the above apps would also require an app to be installed for Windows, too. Not sure how this can be leveled as an OSX criticism.
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