macOS VSCode mouse wheel scroll sensitivity

[Shaunathanz]

Type: Bug

Mouse wheel scroll sensitivity is much too high by default when scrolling using the default settings. The multiplier was defaulted to 1 which caused the documents to scroll way too fast as compared to the rest of the operating system. I selected a value of 0.2 which seems to be much more in line with the expected scroll speed. I also tested with the Apple magic mouse 2 to confirm that the scroll speed issue applies to both devices, the built in magic trackpad and the bluetooth magic mouse. The new value of 0.2 fixes the issue IMO but I'm not sure why the value of 0.2 is necessary when we should be using 1 as a starting point with parity to the macOS.

VS Code version: Code 1.74.2 (Universal) (e8a3071ea4344d9d48ef8a4df2c097372b0c5161, 2022-12-20T10:26:09.430Z) OS version: Darwin arm64 22.2.0 Modes: Sandboxed: No

System Info

|Item|Value| |---|---| |CPUs|Apple M1 Pro (10 x 24)| |GPU Status|2d_canvas: enabled
canvas_oop_rasterization: disabled_off
direct_rendering_display_compositor: disabled_off_ok
gpu_compositing: enabled
metal: disabled_off
multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on
opengl: enabled_on
rasterization: enabled
raw_draw: disabled_off_ok
skia_renderer: enabled_on
video_decode: enabled
video_encode: enabled
vulkan: disabled_off
webgl: enabled
webgl2: enabled
webgpu: disabled_off| |Load (avg)|4, 3, 3| |Memory (System)|16.00GB (0.12GB free)| |Process Argv|--crash-reporter-id dd145543-5a42-4c66-85a4-25ca2858813e| |Screen Reader|no| |VM|0%|

Extensions (15)

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A/B Experiments

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[Shaunathanz]

Update did not affect the issue.

Additionally a value of 0 has results similar to a value of 1. Not sure what's going on there...

[ldexterldesign]

👋

IMO everyone should be directing attention here - all scroll settings (e.g. mouse, trackpad) should be defaulting to the OS

Frankly - to put it politely - a bit perplexed people are posting their own specific scroll speed settings as fixes 🤦

This issue should be merged/closed

Regards