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> The usability on a laptop goes out the window On a non-Apple trackpad, I'm sure. Apple / macOS has had "3 finger drag" for a good few years now. With it, th
by c-hendricks 3y ago
> The usability on a laptop goes out the window
On a non-Apple trackpad, I'm sure. Apple / macOS has had "3 finger drag" for a good few years now.
With it, there's no clicking involved: you put 3 fingers on your trackpad and move them and it's a drag operation. There's even a timeout / grace period before the drag is actually "committed".
You can also flick any one of your 3 fingers and it will drag + move your cursor with inertia.
And before they introduced 3 finger drag, there was always a timeout when doing tap + drag to account for running into the physical edge of your trackpad.
Having said all that, yeah I agree this isn't a great interaction on non-mobile devices.
- CGamesPlay 3y agoInteresting, it's an accessibility feature that is not enabled by default. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204609 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204609
- CoffeeOnWrite 3y agoFor some reason Apple puts the most basic stuff behind an accessibility option. For example, tab to next button in a system dialog is disabled by default.
- chrismorgan 3y agoAnd, because it’s not enabled by default any more, the implementation has regressed in various situations: I don’t use macOS normally, but I did briefly around six months ago, and I immediately found several bugs in keyboard navigation within the System Preferences app, such as where some fields weren’t accessible that way, or where Shift+Tab wasn’t the opposite of Tab (e.g. {1} ⇥ {2} ⇥ {3} ⇧⇥ {1}, rather than ending on {2}).
- funcDropShadow 3y agoThat is one example, why I have the impression that MacOS is gowing downhill for advanced users for several releases now.