Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: Linux Audio Human Interface Guidelines 0.01
From: Lee Revell (rlrevell_AT_joe-job.com)
Date: Wed Aug 25 2004 - 20:56:12 EEST
On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 09:22, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
> > For a horizontal slider, wheel-up SHOULD increase the value, and
> > wheel-down SHOULD decrease the value by default. However, this behavior
> > MUST be configurable. If a system-wide facility to control
> > this is unavailable then the app MUST provide a configuration
> > mechanism."<-
>
> I see things like this:
> 1. The wheel/slider mapping must be the same system-wide
> 2. Wheel-up should increase, wheel-down should decrease.
> I would write "must" here, if it wasn't for the problem
> with point 1. I wrote to the GTK list, but nobody seems
> to care.
Do you mean that you got no response, or that they don't consider this a
bug? It's pretty clearly a bug if they don't allow the mapping to be
set at widget creation time, because the way it works is completely
opposite of how 9/10 people expect it to work.
> So it should be about making the GTK and QT folks see the
> light, or only using fan-sliders which are different enough
> to behave differently.
>
There have been some reports that QT sliders work the way you would
expect them to. More information is needed in this area.
Lee
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