[OSX-Users] Re: Lion Mail.app

[mc schraefel]

truly, you are powerful.

mc

On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 21:35:41 +0100, Jules Field <sysjkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
wrote:
> 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