Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] read it and drool
From: Dan Hollis (goemon_AT_anime.net)
Date: Mon Dec 04 2000 - 22:05:48 EET
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Jussi Laako wrote:
> Dan Hollis wrote:
> > It seems to violate nearly every GUI rule there is. Knobs never belong on
> > a GUI.
> Why? Command line (ala Snd or EcaSound) is better?
Nonsequitur. Straw man (feel free to beat it up though :-)
> Knobs are also commonly used in industrial (MMI) applications along with
> with meters that look like thermometers, tanks or needle analog meters.
> I do quite alot of development with National Instrument's LabWindows/CVI
> which has loads of realworld-looking widgets. Those are great, because you
> can "read" state of large system at single glance.
Usability by a mouse should never be sacrificed purely for looks!
> Knobs save space and fit perfectly well to many applications. Many today's
> GUIs (especially in Linux) look like ones designed by engineer for engineer.
Actually many of today's GUIs look like ones designed by script kiddies.
Especially gnome. It looks like one huge interactive amiga euro-demo with
shaded-elements-nightmare. KDE on the other hand is attempting to be a
verbatim clone of microsoft windows. Both contain significant elements of
suckage.
-Dan
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