On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 02:53:56PM -0400, Paul Winkler wrote: > > > No, I did not mean 2 axes for one widget. Only that a linear widget has > > > to indicate it's direction even before interaction happens, and that it > > > makes sense to use vertical for volume and horizonal for pan in the > > > same interface. > > > > OH! Hrrm, yes, well. I see the point, but I don't think it will work. > > Differing semantics for similar-looking widget is the worst of all possible > > choices. > > Not if the pan sliders are laid out horizontally :-)
I was speaking of knobs. A horizontal slider is obviously visually different from a vertical one. A horizontally-linear knob is not obviously different from a vertically-linear knob :)
