[linux-audio-dev] ow!

[Paul Winkler]

On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 02:02:12PM -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
> >Seriously though... that looks like it would be a pretty nice piece of 
> >*hardware*, if it were about 30" wide or so. For control with a mouse 
> >on a ~ 15" wide monitor, yuck.  Sigh... I still don't understand why so 
> >many people don't try to come up with an interface that makes good use 
> >of the actual interface resources as opposed to imaginary resources :-)
> 
> because thats a lot more work. doing stuff like this (once you have a
> pixmap based toolkit in place) is easy, easy, easy. devising new
> metaphors and analogies for the UI is tough, often like a research
> project. 

fair enough.  and it looks like this is a clone of an actual piece of
hardware. So there were compelling reasons to go that route, even though I think
stuff like this is decidedly non-optimal to use...

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