Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] read it and drool
From: Paul Barton-Davis (pbd_AT_Op.Net)
Date: Mon Dec 04 2000 - 06:44:42 EET
>If you have to resort to knobs because you are short of screen space, then
>something is fundamentally wrong with your GUI design and you should
>re-think it.
if you're really claiming that lack of space indicates a fundamental
problem with GUI design, i think you're wrong. its not always
appropriate to partition a multitude of controllers into sub-groups
visible one at a time. it may also be that the window with the control
elements is not the main window, and you want to avoid obscuring too
much of that main window. etc. it just seems to broad to me to say "if
you don't have enough screen real-estate, your GUI design is wrong".
>> if you can get away from the notion of "turning the knob by moving in
>> a circle" and back to "adjust the value by moving the mouse, and look
>> - the knob shows us where we are", i think you will see this more
>> clearly.
>
>You're talking about a virtual control, where control position is loosely
>and non-linearly linked to movement of the mouse. It's a very poor control
>design.
why ? just because its unfamiliar given people's experience with
windows and macos ?
--p
ps. i find it ironic that when i had to pick a set of pixmaps to use
with the MotionFeedback objects that ardour uses to build its
LADSPA plugin GUI's, i decided to use sliders instead of knobs :)
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