[OSX-Users] Re: Lion Mail.app

[mc schraefel]

On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 19:42:56 +0000, Thanassis Tiropanis
<tt2 at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
> The argument on having all apple devices work the same way makes sense -
i
> might give it a 2h trial too :-)
> 

tell me one can still quickly drag to the bottom or top of a doc or page
down it,
unlike the iphone where with no scroll bars theres no way to rush through a
document from top to bottom -
wish they'd fix that in iOS...

mc

> Thanassis
> 
> 
> 
> On 20 Jul 2011, at 20:27, Jules Field wrote:
> 
>> On MacBook Pros with a trackpad, I've been using Lion for quite a while,
>> and it only takes a couple of hours to get used to the new default
>> scrolling direction. Most of the Macs I use are other people's and so
>> will be setup the new default way, so it's a very necessary investment
>> for me. If you only ever use your own computers, then switch it
>> whichever way feels easier for you.
>> 
>> Scrolling the old way seems really odd to me now!
>> I just want to drag the document up and down, not the window showing me
a
>> bit of it.
>> And with the new direction all my Apple devices work the *same* way,
>> which makes life simpler.
>> 
>> Just my 2p worth. "It helps with scrolling" is not a global opinion. :-)
>> 
>> Jules.
>> 
>> On 20/07/2011 20:22, Thanassis Tiropanis wrote:
>>> One of the first things that I changed was to untick the option 'Scroll
>>> direction: natural' in the 'scroll&  zoom' tab of the trackpad
>>> settings. It helps with scrolling on any app...
>>> Best
>>> Thanassis
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 20 Jul 2011, at 20:14, Nick Gibbins wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Holy cow. I'm not saying that the default settings are wrong, but
>>>> they're
>>>> very different to existing behaviour (particularly conversations).
This
>>>> could take quite a bit of getting used to.
>>>> 
>>>> Also, Launchpad - what's the point?
>>>> -- 
>>>> Dr Nicholas Gibbins                                    
>>>> nmg at ecs.soton.ac.uk
>>>> Web and Internet Science                  
>>>> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~nmg/
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>>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> Jules
>> 
>> -- 
>> sysjkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk
>>