On Saturday 21 August 2004 01:30 am, Lee Revell wrote: > I just installed jack-rack and find the mouse wheel behavior a bit odd. > The sliders are horizontal, and turning the wheel 'up' (away from you) > decreases the slider value, and vice versa. > > This seems backwards to me. What does everyone else think? This is one I agree. "Away" in most circumstances increases values and "towards" decreases > of those things that will *have* to work the same way in every app, > otherwise it's maddening for users, so we had better agree on it now. > Alternatively, there has to be one place where this behavior can be set > for all apps. What is not acceptable is for 50% to do it one way and > 50% the other. > > What is really needed is a set of human interface guidelines for Linux > audio apps. Better to do this now, while much of the code is not > mature, than later, and have a bunch of different apps which work, > except that the widgets work completely different from one app to > another for no good reason other than that person A felt like doing it > like this and person B like that. You can talk about freedom all you > want but the users do not care about this kind of thing, it just looks > like the left hand is not talking to the right. Professional users > (rightfully) demand a consistent interface, unless there is a good > reason (extra functionality) not to provide one. > Making things configurable so users can override and have consistency would be acceptable.. > I would like to start putting these guidelines together. A good place > to start is to document the behavior of the most popular and mature > existing apps. Any suggestions are welcome. > > Lee
