[linux-audio-dev] mouse wheel behavior and RFC: human interface guidelines

[Tim Hockin]

On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 06:35:44PM +0200, Melanie wrote:
> Left is generally associated with up, right with down, as we read left to 
> right, top to bottom. Therefore, up MUST map to left, down MUST map to 
> right, otherwise, non-mathematically minded people get uttely confused.

That's crap.  It makes no sense at ALL.  I will never ever write software
where moving the wheel up moves a slider left.  Sorry.,  Braindead.