On Tue, 9 Dec 2014 00:17:59 +0200 Harry Nakos <[email protected]> wrote:
> After more than some thought, I think I could throw a couple of ideas out > there too. As Will and Kristian suggested, tabs as a favourite-like > mechanism would facilitate quickly navigating through favourite sounds. > But, as Kristian suggested, there are some issues. Such as loading sounds > that do not pertain to open tabs. Or the fact that many windows would need > to be designed (e.g. for checking/unchecking elements from list of banks) If you use the current 'Instruments' window as a template, there would actually be very little extra window programming. All the bank copy/move can be done on icons in the appropriate windows. > and much specialized functionality to be coded. The programming side might be a bit more 'interesting' :) > The navigation is very specific. Bank root directory -> Bank -> Instrument. > It's not like we have a huge amount of breadcrumbs that would justify a > fairytale. Exactly. > - Program select screen from m50. I took the lousiest photo ever (from what > I call my phone) and uploaded it here -> http://imgur.com/G5LIvh4 <- to > give you an idea. I personally like the scrollbar and the tab concept. The > touchscreen has a lot of limitations, but the general concept feels good. > > - Miller columns in general. And specifically as implemented in Rhythmbox > -> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2008-July/jpgG5TZfp9qPg.jpg > Now here is where we diverge. I'm not a lover of scrolling windows. If you don't have many items you don't need to scroll, but if you have lots of items they can be a real pain. --------- Open window Look at first few entries Think it's a poor range Notice scroll bar Scroll, scroll, scroll, scroll, Oh, what was that first one? Scroll, scroll, scroll, scroll, Bugger! Forgot what I saw at the end. Scroll, sc Hey, what's that? Double bugger! Forgot what I saw at both ends. --------- See what I mean? Also I find *sideways* scrolling really non-intuitive. Now that's only my opinion, so I take on board your thoughts, and would hope others will have their say. I really want Yoshi to appeal to have as wide an audience as possible. A final reminder. The synth engine has no concept of bank, instrument or root dir lists. The only thing it knows about are the 16 possible instruments that are currently loaded. -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ yoshimi-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/yoshimi-user
