[sneak]

Disabling natural-direction scrolling isn't sensible.

It's the first thing I fix on all other OSes. Why should the content go the opposite direction of the way I'm moving my finger?

This is one of the best fixes Apple ever made, back in Lion. Kudos to them to seeing the everyday and noticing that it was wrong.

[samatman]

This is configurable almost everywhere it is encountered, and there's a reason for that!

It's the same dilemma as panning a first-person-perspective camera up and down. Some people think that down should move the perspective, some people think that down should move the camera: so pushing the joystick down should move the viewing window up. These physical intuitions are durable and hard to change.

I grimly endured the difference between a trackpad and a phone until OS X (as it was then known) switched to the "correct" default, but I'm one of those people who expects a camera to work like the control stick of a plane: pulling towards me, or down, should elevate the perspective. I purchased a gimbal recently, and was having a terrible time controlling it until I realized that the default (pushing the joystick up points the camera up) could be overridden.

I don't think there's anything "sensible" in a general way about anyone's custom configuration script, frankly, and I suspect the person who made this wasn't actually trying to promote it for public consumption, and just meant "script to make my computer do what I consider sensible".

[ben509]

I've only ever noticed "natural" scrolling was wrong when it became an option on desktop machines.

It makes perfect sense when I'm on a phone that I'm grabbing the content, since I'm reaching out and literally touching the content.

But on a desktop, I have a cursor. Obviously if I want to point at something below where my cursor is, I move it down. And if it's off the window, I need to scroll down further.

[gegtik]

This opinion betrays a lack of imagination.

There are two equally valid subjective choices here:

- does moving your finger up "grab the content" under the glass and move it up, or

- does moving your finger up "grab the window", moving it up along a long virtual document?

Both are legit mental models, it's a preference.

[sneak]

This would make sense if the choices were equal and opposite. They're not, though, since the advent of smooth scrolling.

[gegtik]

how are they not equal and opposite?