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

[Steve Harris]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 12:34:19 -0400, Paul Winkler wrote:
> > > 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).
> 
> GAH... I totally forgot about that. I just looked at my RNC and 
> you're right :-P   It has an LED meter like so:
> 
> +----- gain reduction ------+
> 20  16  12  8   6   4   2   0
> *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *
> 
> I could swear I remember seeing an old tube compressor that
> had a gain reduction meter with "more" to the right, so it
> moved in opposition to the corresponding VU meter.  
> No idea what model it was, and this was about 6 years ago
> so I could be mistaken.

Could well, be I said "one convention", poor attempt at sarcasm.
 
> I wonder how consistent this is in the world of hardware?
> maybe I'll pop a question on rec.audio.pro.

I think that (most of) the meter specifications say how the numbers should
be layed out, not which way the meter indicator moves.

- Steve