When the touchpad is set to emulate a mouse scroll wheel while using a circular gesture, swiping clockwise is scroll down and swiping counter clockwise is scroll up. Of course, you can change this if you want:

Steam>Settings>Controller>Pair and Manage>Desktop Layout>Edit>Edit Layout>Trackpads>Left Trackpad Behaviour>[gear icon]>Invert Swipe Direction

Or just swap the “Clockwise Command” and the “Counter Clockwise Command” under Steam>Settings>Controller>Pair and Manage>Desktop Layout>Edit>Edit Layout>Trackpads>Left Trackpad Behaviour

But regardless of the fact that it can be changed, there must be some logic to why the Steam Deck touchpad behaves that way by default, right? Help me make sense of why some dev team at Valve decided that the default should be “clockwise=down” despite these other common scenarios in which “clockwise=up”.

  • Sneezycat@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    2 months ago

    When you turn clockwise, you move down when you’re on the right side.

    To scroll down, you move the slider on the right side downwards.

    Idk, it’s intuitive for me, but I guess that it’s like inverted controls on videogames. What’s comfortable for you depends on how your brain works.

    I think of it as a (the world’s ugliest) cogwheel.

      • SatyrSack@quokk.auOPEnglish
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        2 months ago

        The only problem that I have with that is when Y is inverted, but X is not. It’s simple to wrap my head around “up actually means down”, but to simultaneously have to think “left still means left” is confusing.