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On Thursday 10 June 2004 03:03, Tim Hockin wrote:
Radial is confusing to people.
Radial movement on control elements often confuses me.
If there was a line drawn from the center of the knob to the mouse pointer,
maybe sporting arrows in the
On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 09:46:36AM +0200, Burkhard Woelfel wrote:
Radial movement on control elements often confuses me.
If there was a line drawn from the center of the knob to the mouse pointer,
maybe sporting arrows in the directions to move the mouse would make two
things obvious for
On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 17:28:09 +0200, Thorsten Wilms wrote
On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 09:46:36AM +0200, Burkhard Woelfel wrote:
Radial movement on control elements often confuses me.
...
Well, the scaling issue was not obvious to me, I needed to
read about it somewhere, but afterwards made
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 05:22:55PM +0100, Dave Griffiths wrote:
I like your fan idea Thorsten, but I also think it could work invisibly - ie
no need for the transparent overlay. This would take a bit of learning that it
was there to begin with - but transparent graphics like that are
On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 18:54:20 +0200, Thorsten Wilms wrote
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 05:22:55PM +0100, Dave Griffiths wrote:
I like your fan idea Thorsten, but I also think it could work invisibly - ie
no need for the transparent overlay. This would take a bit of learning that it
was there
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 06:54:20PM +0200, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
Requiring the user to read documentation to learn about functionality
he would not even expect is not an option.
Have education levels gone down *that* far ?
--
FA
I have a denormal fix without a branch but you probably don't want to
see it ;-)
It's pretty simple, just OR the bits of the exponent together which
gives either
0 (denormal) or 1, typecast that to float, and then multiply the
original float by that (0.0 or 1.0). Voila, no branch, but it
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 06:00:42PM +0200, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 06:54:20PM +0200, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
Requiring the user to read documentation to learn about functionality
he would not even expect is not an option.
Have education levels gone down *that* far ?
On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 19:29, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
Besides, we were talking about widgets. When even single
widgets would require to RTFM, what would that mean
for a full app?
I think there is a danger here of being too conservative - something I
think existing commercial software does (in a
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 12:09:24PM +0100, Dave Griffiths wrote:
On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 19:29, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
Besides, we were talking about widgets. When even single
widgets would require to RTFM, what would that mean
for a full app?
I think there is a danger here of being too
On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 12:00, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 06:54:20PM +0200, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
Requiring the user to read documentation to learn about functionality
he would not even expect is not an option.
Have education levels gone down *that* far ?
It is not
On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 07:09, Dave Griffiths wrote:
On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 19:29, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
Besides, we were talking about widgets. When even single
widgets would require to RTFM, what would that mean
for a full app?
I think there is a danger here of being too conservative -
At Fri, 25 Jun 2004 18:00:42 +0200,
Fons Adriaensen wrote:
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 06:54:20PM +0200, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
Requiring the user to read documentation to learn about
functionality he would not even expect is not an option.
Have education levels gone down *that* far ?
WTF?
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 06:15:24PM -0400, Pete Bessman wrote:
I have a very simple request for everybody who loathes
plug-and-drool usability: show me the tunes. That's all. Lemme
hear the avant garde music enabled by avant garde interfaces
The most avant-garde music is enabled by very dull
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 03:38:10PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 12:00, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 06:54:20PM +0200, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
Requiring the user to read documentation to learn about functionality
he would not even expect is not an
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 08:29:44PM +0200, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 06:00:42PM +0200, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 06:54:20PM +0200, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
Requiring the user to read documentation to learn about functionality
he would not even
At Fri, 25 Jun 2004 23:28:35 +0200,
Fons Adriaensen wrote:
so that I can compare it against the mouth-breathing crow-magnon
music created with shiny-quarter interfaces. I'm sure the results
will speak for themselves.
They do, but maybe not in the direction you imagined. And cro-magnon
On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 17:23, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 03:38:10PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
I think this is a lot of the reason European (especially Dutch) design
is so much more advanced than American. In the States, a fire exit sign
says 'EXIT'. In the Netherlands,
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