[LAD] User eXperience in Linux Audio

[Vytautas Jancauskas]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 11:39 PM, Fons Adriaensen <fons at linuxaudio.org>
wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 06:34:25AM -0700, Len Ovens wrote:
>
> > A knob is ok if it works similar. Knobs that insist that I touch the
> > knob pointer and move that in a tiny arch to adjust and where the
> > pointer flips from one end to the other if I make the wrong move are
> > not easier to move on stage...
>
> That's just bad design.
>

I never understood that. Who would think that having to operate a circular
knob by moving the mouse in a little circle is convenient? It's also a bit
harder to implement. Is there some argument for it I am not aware of? Even
if it's a bad argument?
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