Last Tuesday 24 August 2004 20:10, Lee Revell was like: > I just realized I posted this to LAD but not LAU. Since the whole point > of HIGs is to be reflect user rather than developer needs, I am > reposting it here. > > OK, so if I were to start writing the Linux Audio Human Interface > Guidelines based on all of the feedback from this post, I would say > something like the following. I have used the type of language you > would find in an Internet RFC. > > "Sliders MUST be operable with the mouse wheel. This MUST only be > enabled when mousing over a slider, otherwise, the mouse wheel MUST > retain its normal behavior of scrolling the window. > > For a vertical slider, rolling the mouse button away from you > (hereafter: wheel-up event) MUST increase the value of the parameter, > and wheel-down MUST decrease the value. > > 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." YES. > Additional submissions are welcome and in fact essential, since the > above only covers one aspect of one widget's behavior. Sure, but if other widget behaviours could be agreed upon, defined like this and implemented universally, I will be one happy user. :-) cheers tim hall
