Subject: Re[2]: [linux-audio-dev] read it and drool
From: Rick Burnett (destinytech_AT_spacey.net)
Date: Mon Dec 04 2000 - 07:15:40 EET
I have to agree with Paul here for sure! You have to look at it this
way, a dial takes up less gui space then a slider and provides an easy
gauge at the level of the control. They use knobs on mixers because
they are small and you can fit more, so your 12 channel mixer doesn't
require 100 square feet of space :) Everyone has their own 'like' of
GUIs, thats why so many programs have allowed skins/themes. I
would much rather have a gui that looked as those do then some gray
array of sliders with some text. Now if the GUI is eating up
processor power with alot of animations and stuff, well, then that is
a different story. I think that it is quite neat that they have
developed such an application, and would even like to try it out. I
like to try and use the best elements of both worlds. And until I
have actually used the interface first hand, how could a picture tell
you how its going to work? Everyone is so quick to put any other
application down if its not 'exactly' what they want. I am just glad
because these are the people that are setting the standards, and
its there software that others are going to use first before anything
comes around for linux thats the same. So stop complaining and start
making one for us :)
Heheh, I am afraid to let out a screenshot of my DSP GUI, thank god it
has no knobs :)
Rick
Sunday, December 03, 2000, you wrote:
DH> On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Paul Barton-Davis wrote:
>> >It seems to violate nearly every GUI rule there is. Knobs never belong on
>> >a GUI.
>> use that thing can zoom around it like crazy. If you were writing a
>> GUI for *them* would you want it to pay attention to Windows/MacOS GUI
>> "rules", or would you want it to work pretty like the Ensoniq ?
DH> It's not a question of "does it work like the ensoniq".
DH> It's a question of, is an onscreen dial supposed to be operated with a
DH> mouse?
DH> The answer is : ABSOLUTELY NOT!
DH> There are many possible bad designs in a GUI, but a dial is the worst
DH> possible control anyone could ever put on an GUI to be controlled by a
DH> mouse.
DH> Sliders are fine. Dials are NOT.
DH> -Dan
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