Tahoe Broke Resizing Finder Columns View
At the bottom of each column is a resizing widget that you can use to change the width of the columns. Or rather, you could use it to change the width of the columns. On macOS Tahoe, the horizontal scroller covers the resizing widget and prevents it from being clicked! Compare with macOS Sequoia, where the horizontal scroller and scroll bar are below the column and allow access to all of the resizing widgets.
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Notice what happens when you use the default value: not only do the scrollbars disappear, the resizing widgets also disappear.
You can still resize the columns, though, by hovering over the horizontal column border lines. Thus, it appears that the Finder team did not even test with the combination of columns view and always show scroll bars.
That’s the problem with settings like Show Scroll bars: Always and the accessibility display options. They’re there because a vocal minority wants them and Apple feels it has to offer them in order to check a box, but it’s clear that its heart isn’t in making them great. Another one I’d put in this category is Natural scrolling. There’s nothing wrong with its behavior, as far as I know, but you can tell from the name that Apple doesn’t want you to turn this off. The Smooth scrolling checkbox was removed long ago, though thankfully the user default to turn it off still works in most cases.
Previously:
- The Struggle of Resizing Windows on Tahoe
- Liquid Glass Disbelief
- Stop Smooth Scrolling in Safari 16.4
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"Natural Scrolling" is another clear indicator that Apple hates the mouse. It's the nautral direction on a trackpad. It's entirely unnatural on a mouse wheel. It would be so easy to split those options so you don't have to have it broken for one or the other, but Apple just doesn't care.
@bart Natural scrolling does feel natural with a Magic Mouse, though. I think they should split the options (because otherwise it’s punitive to ever use a non-Apple mouse), but the Magic Mouse should either be treated like a trackpad or be a third type…
Another problem is that it looks like the setting is split because Natural scrolling shows up separately in the Mouse and Trackpad panes of System Settings, but actually they are linked and changing one changes the other, too.
Another Tahoe horizontal scrollbar thing: in Music, now that the main controls have been moved to the bottom of the window, overlaid on the contents of the main window, if there's a horizontal scroll bar that appears *above* the controls, instead of at the bottom of the window. Looks very odd.
Mos is a great utility for people who use both trackpad and mouse on the same machine. Allows defining the scroll behavior for each.
