Option to invert "tab scrolling"
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It would be quite useful to be able to switch to: scroll up = right, scroll down = left. It would be more intuitive for many people, especially those who are switching from Opera.
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@Igoracy do you mean that, in opera, scrolling up goes to the NEXT tab and down to the PREVIOUS? It can't be more counter intuitive
and what about those using vertical tab bar?
Anyway, I'm not against more options, I was just curious about this strangeness. -
@iAN-CooG I switched a few years ago and to this day I get confused by it. It seems natural to me that scrolling down shows the previous content (in this case, left) - just how websites are usually structured, only that they're usually vertical.
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@Igoracy You are talking about natural scrolling, which is implemented on devices with touch screens and touchpads. Scrolling down with the mouse wheel on page content doesn’t show the previous content, but the next content on desktop. You should be able to switch to natural scrolling on operating system level.
I tested this on Gnome and it works as expected: Switching to natural scrolling changes the tab bar scrolling direction.
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I agree with this idea, though for a different reason.
This is in relation to applying natural scrolling in macOS. I believe there is a certain demand for having different scroll directions for trackpads and mice. For example, using natural scrolling on the trackpad, while keeping the traditional scroll direction for the mouse.
In macOS, for some reason, the natural scrolling setting is shared between both trackpads and mice, so in order to achieve separate scroll directions, third-party software is required. These tools work by reversing the scroll events for each device.
It seems that Vivaldi’s tab cycling is intentionally designed to ignore natural scrolling. As a result, if you reverse the scroll events, the tab cycling will always move in the opposite direction.
Ideally, it would be better to find a solution that doesn’t rely on browser settings, but I’m not sure what a good alternative would be…
