Trackpad Settings for OSX Lion

Dear Apple,

I have a concern about your naturally scrolling UI for the new OSX Lion, especially for people who happen to also use two-finger-scrolling on their non-Mac computers.

When scrolling on a tablet, psychologically, you are pushing the text up, so the “natural” scrolling works. You move your fingers up, to move the text up.

On the Macbook with a trackpad, the idea that is etched into our psyche is to move the scroll bar, not the text. Therefore, we move the scroll bar down, to push the page up.

This is great that you allowed us a setting to toggle this as we wish. There is nothing wrong with trying to implement a “natural” movement on the Macbook and getting used to a new way of doing things.

After trying the “natural” way for a bit, I decided to keep the “unnatural” movement for the scrolling so it doesn’t mess me up when I work with two-finger-scrolling a Windows or non OSX Lion computer. If you have to demonstrate software on a client’s non-Mac machine and you can’t seem to scroll in the right direction, it makes you seem silly and eats at your credibility.

Unfortunately, that forces me to work with the “unnatural” movement to swipe between full screen apps and desktops.

When swiping between desktops/full screen apps, we are not really “scrolling” but pushing the entire screen to the side. Therefore, it would be more logical to push the screen the same direction as the swipe using the “natural” movement.

I, and I am sure others, would be grateful to have a way of independently toggling the “natural” and “unnatural” settings for both scrolling and swiping between desktops.

Thank you!

p.s. if you’re voting, do let us know how you deal with two-finger-scrolling on non-Mac machines, especially if you decided upon using the natural movement for your OSX Lion.

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