Excerpts from hermann's message of 2011-11-24 21:31:22 +0100: > Am Donnerstag, den 24.11.2011, 14:21 -0500 schrieb David Robillard: > > Middle click to "go here" is a convention from scroll bars dating back > > to the dawn of X11. Using something easily done accidentally (and > > unknowingly) for learn doesn't seem like the best idea to me. > > > > That said, some laptops don't have middle buttons... > > I think most modern apps use middle mouse button today for midi > connection. Laptops witch didn't have a middle mouse button often even > didn't have a midi in connection so there is nothing to loose. > And, for that case one can provide a midi table to choose connections > from.
Plug in an external interface (like basically everyone does) and it has a midi connection. Also, jack doesn't need a midi hardware device to be useful. > A click to "go here", seems on the other hand like a bad Idea for me. > > Most time you have a underling adjustment witch have a much wider range > then the screen counterpart (the controller) represent so that it is > impossible to click on a point and get the wonted value. I'd worry about left/right buttons first, find agreement on basic stuff, worry about the leftovers later. > But overall, a agreement about the different use cases of controller > keys will be very fine and useful for the Linux Audio World. Yes, I'm also very much pro a convention. I don't see any real solution to the problem that different human interface guidelines create in general, and it's a real mess on linux or when you want to go cross platform, but a convention for Linux Audio sure wouldn't hurt. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
