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

John Check j4strngs at bitless.net
Wed Aug 25 14:36:23 EDT 2004


On Wednesday 25 August 2004 10:55 am, Steve Harris wrote:
> 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).
>

Yup. I think there's room for that 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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