Windows 8 Double Finger vs Single Finger

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ne1wantaride

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So.. why is it that everything in Windows 8 with a horizontal scrollbar is double finger scroll??? Except the home screen... I can do one or the other but consistency of it would be nice.

Is it a setting or is it one of those, "It is what it is..", kind of deals.
 
Why slide to unlock with a mouse? Why the mix of horizontal and vertical scrolling? Why are buttons buttons sometimes and random bits of text other times?

I think it's because a bunch of different people made it. People who don't really talk to each other. :D
 
DeathPrincess said:
I think it's because a bunch of different people made it. People who don't really talk to each other. :D
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From the several folks I talked to at Microsoft, this is seriously a problem. It's not so much the people, it's the teams that don't collaborate well with other teams or they are moved from team to team in the middle of a project.

Some people LOVE working for Microsoft. Others like working there but can't stand the politics or some company structure (scoring system for one - that's one of the most hated things at MSFT).
 
I assume you're talking about a track pad? The Start Screen and Windows Store app will scroll when the mouse is at the edge of the screen, it's up to the app to implement this behavior and not built-in the Modern UI.
 
heatlesssun said:
I assume you're talking about a track pad? The Start Screen and Windows Store app will scroll when the mouse is at the edge of the screen, it's up to the app to implement this behavior and not built-in the Modern UI.
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Yes. But even the built in apps (ie. People) doesn't scroll like the Home Screen. Inconsistencies. Maybe it is like when you haven't taken a shit in a long time, hurts a lot in the beginning but feels amazing when you are done...
 
Update your touchpad driver. This functionality is implemented there.

If you have a Synaptics device and get the Win8 version of the driver, you get all sorts of touch functionality. For example, I can swipe from the right to open the charms menu, swipe from the left to "alt-tab" and more...

http://www.synaptics.com/resources/drivers
 
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