Chris Cannam wrote: > On Saturday 17 Jul 2004 9:46 pm, Jonathan Segel wrote: > >>>consider returning to some sort of sliders, they're far more >>>convenient in a GUI, since their movement follow better the >>>movement of the mouse. >> >>i'm betting that the way it actually is manipulated is that drawing >>a straight line with the mouse up or down turns the knob [...] > > > Oh no! This subject has just been the subject of a 200+-article > flamewar (sorry, I mean constructive discussion) over on LAD. Are > sliders always better than knobs, or do knobs have their place? Is > it better to operate knobs linearly, or with a rotary mouse motion? > > As far as I could tell there was absolutely no consensus, though it > was fairly widely agreed that (i) neither is perfect, (ii) most > people with an opinion have a _really strong_ opinion, (iii) it would > be nice to have consistency about things like which mouse operation > resets the control to its default, and (iv) people like arguing about > this stuff. > > I'm keeping my own opinion out of it this time. Arnold, I suggest you > try them both out thoroughly in a real world situation, pick the one > you prefer to use, and stick to that. Is there a problem with giving the user preferences to control it all? If done for all apps, seems like a good way to get consistency and also give users what they want. Chris
