[linux-audio-user] Re: Linux Audio Human Interface Guidelines 0.01

[Lee Revell]

On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 09:22, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
> > For a horizontal slider, wheel-up SHOULD increase the value, and
> > wheel-down SHOULD decrease the value by default.  However, this behavior
> > MUST be configurable.  If a system-wide facility to control
> > this is unavailable then the app MUST provide a configuration
> > mechanism."<-
> 
> I see things like this:
> 1. The wheel/slider mapping must be the same system-wide
> 2. Wheel-up should increase, wheel-down should decrease.
> I would write "must" here, if it wasn't for the problem 
> with point 1. I wrote to the GTK list, but nobody seems 
> to care.

Do you mean that you got no response, or that they don't consider this a
bug?  It's pretty clearly a bug if they don't allow the mapping to be
set at widget creation time, because the way it works is completely
opposite of how 9/10 people expect it to work.

> So it should be about making the GTK and QT folks see the 
> light, or only using fan-sliders which are different enough
> to behave differently.
> 

There have been some reports that QT sliders work the way you would
expect them to.  More information is needed in this area.

Lee