[OSX-Users] Re: Lion Mail.app

[Jules Field]

On 20/07/2011 20:44, mc schraefel wrote:
> 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...
In System Preferences / General you can choose to show the scroll bars 
automatically or always. If it's set to "when scrolling" it shows them 
when you start to move them for a second or two, at which point you can 
drag the scrollbar wherever. If it's set to "always" then you just use 
them like you always have. You can also set it to "automatically based 
on input device" at which point it works differently for trackpads and mice.

To be able to quickly get to the top or bottom (or any other point 
through the document), then again in System Preferences / General you 
can choose "Jump to the next page" or "Jump to the spot that's clicked", 
and you should set it to "Jump to the spot that's clicked", which will 
give you the behaviour you appear to want.

Some of these new changes do take a bit of getting used to, but it's a 
very short learning curve, believe me. I find the new 'lack of permanent 
scrollbars most of the time' really rather nice now. And the new 
trackpad scrolling direction makes much more sense, so everything I use 
regularly works the same way, rather than the Mac being the opposite of 
my i-devices.

Oh, 1 more little change you might not have noticed. In System 
Preferences, you don't have to return to "Show All" to choose another 
pane. Just click and hold on the "Show All" button and it drops down a 
sorted list of all the panes available.

There are dozens of little tweaks and improvements that you will slowly 
start to discover. :-)

Jules.

> 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/
>>>>> Electronics and Computer Science                   tel: +44 (0) 23
>>>>> 80598879
>>>>> University of Southampton                          fax: +44 (0) 23
>>>>> 80592865
>>>>>
>>> Jules
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> sysjkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk
>>>

Jules

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