Re: [linux-audio-dev] mouse wheel behavior and RFC: human interface guidelines

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] mouse wheel behavior and RFC: human interface guidelines
From: Paul Davis (paul_AT_linuxaudiosystems.com)
Date: Sat Aug 21 2004 - 20:56:03 EEST


>it's backwards in a "numerical" sense, in that the numbers increase with
>one slider type, but decrease with another, using the same command.
>
>However, UI designers don't think in numbers, but associations.
>
>Left is generally associated with up, right with down, as we read left to
>right, top to bottom. Therefore, up MUST map to left, down MUST map to
>right, otherwise, non-mathematically minded people get uttely confused.

this doesn't seem right to me. in all countries that use left->right
writing conventions, i think right is considered the default
"up".

also, when i think of road driving signs used to indicate significant
uphill or downhill sections, my recollection is that in the US and in
Europe they obey this right=up association if they actually show the
slope.

--p


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