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> Instead, the problem was that the architect was unaware that it was possible to pick up a mouse and relocate it without the pointer moving from its current po
by Wowfunhappy 3y ago
> Instead, the problem was that the architect was unaware that it was possible to pick up a mouse and relocate it without the pointer moving from its current position.
I am an elementary school teacher, and my students also don't realize this! It can be surprisingly difficult to explain to the younger ones. I sometimes have to put my hand over theirs on the mouse and demonstrate the motion.
- mcmoor 3y agoWe really took some things for granted. These things usually need to be taught from childhood to build intuition because no one would really be able to teach them all of these later, even themselves.
- userbinator 3y agoThat is very surprising, since I thought younger kids would be more likely to play around and figure out themselves that the mouse can't move the cursor unless it's flat against a surface.
- Wowfunhappy 3y agoI think some of them might recognize this (that the cursor only moves if the mouse is on a surface), but figuring out how to use it to recenter your mouse in space is a bit of a logic leap.
- kjkjadksj 3y agoYou’d think you’d learn that within one of the first times you used the mouse by accidentally doing it. Then again the OP is about a professional architect failing to realize this…
- perilunar 3y agoIf you've grown up using touchscreens (absolute position), then a mouse or a trackpad (relative velocity) could be a bit counterintuitive.
- fho 3y agoYep ... To the point where we had first year university students (20yo-ish), who never used a laptop or desktop pc before.
- ornornor 3y agoI suspect that’s also why the default for scrolling on computers is now the inverse of what it’s ever been. The default is that you’re grabbing the document and pulling it up to scroll down whereas those of us who grew up before smart phones find it way more logical to scroll the wheel down to scroll down. Basically moving the document (touchscreen) vs moving the viewport (pre-touchscreen). I have to change the default on every machine I use, I hate how inverted scrolling is becoming the normal scrolling direction, and normal scrolling is being thought of as inverted. Heh.
- PufPufPuf 3y agoThat's just an Apple thing, the scroll direction is still the same on normal computers.
- ornornor 3y agoNot in my experience. Windows also sets it wrong by default, I can’t remember about Ubuntu with the default DE but I think it also sets it wrong if you’re using a trackpad.
- Am4TIfIsER0ppos 3y agoIIRC it was also backwards (compared to a scrollwheel) when I installed linux and kde on my laptop but I'm going to boot it and check. Hm... the value in the config claims it is the default so I'm not sure anymore.
- kjkjadksj 3y agoI’m surprised your kids aren’t more curious about the mouse. I remember being in school during the trackball/optical mouse transmission. There was no question how the mouse worked for us, because we’d do things with it like stealing the schools trackballs to play with or staring directly into the optical laser, in either case learning everything about the mouse. Maybe kids aren’t so curious with their electronics these days.
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