[LAD] User eXperience in Linux Audio

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sat, 2015-04-25 at 12:36 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Apr 2015 11:01:54 +0100, Will Godfrey wrote:
> > On Sat, 25 Apr 2015 11:23:49 +0200
> > Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at rocketmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sat, 25 Apr 2015 08:50:21 +0100, Will Godfrey wrote:
> > > > One of my pet hates is erratic implementation of tooltips... 
> > > > that
> > > > can't be disabled!
> > > 
> > > Tooltips showing the value instead of a description of the 
> > > option IMO
> > > are good.
> > 
> > Debatable. If I'm twiddling knobs to get a particular 'sound' I'm 
> > not
> > at all interested in what the numbers are. At a later date I might
> > want to make a note of them, but if I can save the settings anyway,
> > even that is moot.
> 
> Assumed you have several sound presets for the same synth and you 
> like to sync attack times without playing notes and comparing those 
> sounds, it's nice to at least have a tooltip showing the value. IOW 
> it can help to at least get coarse results very quickly

PS:

Using seemingly equal positions of controls often don't allow even to
get a coarse results, since they suffer from screen resolution.