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I don’t understand people who don’t use inverted scrolling. That’s just so counter-intuitive.

I don’t understand people who don’t use inverted scrolling. That’s just so counter-intuitive.

Wait, so when you need to go to the bottom of a page, you grab the handle of the scroll bar and actually WANT to have it move in the opposite direction of two finger scrolling?

It just depends on your abstraction you’re mentally using. If you think of a sliding moving visual window on a document, then you like the scroll bar mental model. If you think of moving the content itself, then you like the phone scroll model. I have no idea which one “natural” or “inverted” is and don’t really care what the default is.

For touchpads, give me the phone style scroll. For a mouse wheel, give me scroll bar scroll.

It does feel weird that middle click and then move the mouse (I think Firefox does that kind?) will move the view such that down motion movies content up. But instead click and drag (okukar browse function) upward motion moves content up. Again, just depends on your abstraction in that moment.

It just depends on your abstraction you’re mentally using. If you think of a sliding moving visual window on a document, then you like the scroll bar mental model. If you think of moving the content itself, then you like the phone scroll model.

But it’s two different directions whether you grab the scrollbar handle or move two fingers. Why would I need to learn two different movement directions for a single scroll direction? That makes no sense and it’s not natural.

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I know it's not your message, but I think it's related and it points to a deeper pattern: clicking on a folder in dolphin is essentially a link. On a web browser everyone is used to single click to open links, on a file manager it's unthinkable for many people.

My whole point is: what to you seems highly related, to other people might seem completely unrelated.
In this case the two interactions you cite are, for some, unrelated. Hence everything looks normal to them