Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: Linux Audio Human Interface Guidelines 0.01
From: John Check (j4strngs_AT_bitless.net)
Date: Wed Aug 25 2004 - 21:35:07 EEST
On Wednesday 25 August 2004 09:22 am, 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.
> I don't think this should be configurable, because it has
> been shown that the proposed behaviour makes more sense.
> If we introduce options for things like this, we will end
> up in configurability hell.
>
> 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.
>
Fansliders. big thumbs up
One of these days I'll try doing that with QT.
>
> ---
> Thorsten Wilms
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