On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 04:13:14PM +0200, Jens M Andreasen wrote:
The glass looks slippery. Maybe a bit of noise or a diamond-pattern
could make it look more rubbery and grab friendly?
I understand. But applying a pattern to the whole thing
would add visual noise making it harder to read. Might also
look like it would be draggable as one part.
Applying a pattern to the 'positive' part would break the
notion that it's one unfiform clickable area.
It looks like orange-juice ...
That's quite a welcome association :)
First 3 sizes, to see how it looks like down to quadratic
for replacing small knobs (not sure about that).
The medium size looks just right. Easy to get at from all directions
without overshooting the mouse-pointer.
The size would be case by case decision (layout matters, importance,
value range). But there could be some recommended standard sizes.
You'll have to move the pointer pretty far before
getting the advantage
of say twice the precision. What if the fan expanded exponentially? The
idea being that the fan is slightly curved and tends to get closer to
the user.
Than fan could expand much quicker even linear. But a good idea, would
need to be tested with an implementation.
Thanks.
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Thorsten Wilms