Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Linux Audio Human Interface Guidelines 0.01 (was Re: mouse wheel behavior and RFC: human interface guidelines)
From: Steve Harris (S.W.Harris_AT_ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Aug 25 2004 - 20:26:29 EEST
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 12:34:19 -0400, Paul Winkler wrote:
> > > Here's one that I suppose is non-controversial:
> > >
> > > Meters and Data Plots
> > >
> > > Vertical meters should be oriented such that upward movement represents
> > > increase in the metered value and down represents decrease.
> >
> > Heh, non-controversial you say ;)
> >
> > One convention is that reduction meters got right to left (and presumably
> > top to bottom, though I dont think I've never seen a vertical one).
>
> GAH... I totally forgot about that. I just looked at my RNC and
> you're right :-P It has an LED meter like so:
>
> +----- gain reduction ------+
> 20 16 12 8 6 4 2 0
> * * * * * * * *
>
> I could swear I remember seeing an old tube compressor that
> had a gain reduction meter with "more" to the right, so it
> moved in opposition to the corresponding VU meter.
> No idea what model it was, and this was about 6 years ago
> so I could be mistaken.
Could well, be I said "one convention", poor attempt at sarcasm.
> I wonder how consistent this is in the world of hardware?
> maybe I'll pop a question on rec.audio.pro.
I think that (most of) the meter specifications say how the numbers should
be layed out, not which way the meter indicator moves.
- Steve
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