On 09/10/2010 02:37 AM, Loki Davison wrote: > On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 6:15 AM, Olivier Guilyardi <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Actually, I used the fansliders before, in the very same place :) But there >> were >> two things that I didn't like: >> - the way they look, especially when unfolded, those ugly/huge shapes around >> - the fact that unwanted changes happen when you go away to gain precision >> >> That's why I made those sliders IIRC. You have increased precision right >> after >> clicking, you don't need to move away for that. Plus, with the way they are >> integrated and some mouse magic, it doesn't matter if the window is closed >> to a >> screen border or not. And I think they look neat ;) > > Fansliders are lovely ideas, but the current implementation is pretty > crappy, and I haven't look at the code in years and didn't have a > clear idea about what I was doing with it last time anyway. Now that x > composite is a lot more common it would be easier. I'm surprised > Thorsten hasn't jumped in to the knob discussion yet. If anyone else > wants to fix fan sliders feel free to give me a yell. Since I used fan sliders in my app, I've been thinking a lot about them, and I'm not sure they're such a great idea, for the reasons outlined above. And I saw some sound engineers getting really confused when first trying them. But this might be because they were just surprised. > I still think knobs are pretty evil though. :) Well, as I previously said, I think that knobs can make sense in certain situations. So I'd rather see the phat knob improved ;) I think that's a really cool widget, it provides a very clear visual indication, but it only supports the circle movements. It would be great if there were runtime options to customize the phat knob behavior, to also support up/down and/or left/right, fine-tuning with a key modifier, etc.. Providing alternative styles would also be very cool. -- Olivier _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
