[linux-audio-user] Linux Audio Human Interface Guidelines 0.01 (was Re: mouse wheel behavior and RFC: human interface guidelines)

Steve Harris S.W.Harris at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Aug 25 10:55:47 EDT 2004


On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 10:26:55 -0400, Paul Winkler wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 02:11:45PM +0100, tim hall wrote:
> > Last Tuesday 24 August 2004 20:10, Lee Revell was like:
> > > Additional submissions are welcome and in fact essential, since the
> > > above only covers one aspect of one widget's behavior.
> 
> Here's one that I suppose is non-controversial:
> 
>  Meters and Data Plots
> 
>     Vertical meters should be oriented such that upward movement represents
>     increase in the metered value and down represents decrease. 

Heh, non-controversial you say ;)

One convention is that reduction meters got right to left (and presumably
top to bottom, though I dont think I've never seen a vertical one).

This is neccesary if the reduction measurement (attenuation etc.) is to
have the same scale as a normal measurment. c.f. JAMin's compressor gain
reduction meters: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~swh/jamin-log-spectrum.png
somewhat old screenshot, gut you can see the right-to-left meters and the
bottom of each compressor section.

- Steve



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