17 Aug
2004
17 Aug
'04
8:45 a.m.
On Tuesday 17 August 2004 05:19 am, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 10:50:19AM +0200, Frank
NEUMANN wrote:
Might not always be possible, like if the widget is near the edge of the
screen. The way it works now is fine by me, but somebody would have said it.
But there is one thing about the fanslider I
can't understand: If (one
of) the ideas of this widget is to let the user easily select a
fine-grained value from a small widget that consumes little screen
estate, why does the fan cover the numeric value (in an opaque way) when
it is opened "over" it? I know that it might be more costly (CPU-wise) to
have semi-transparent fans, but in the current state I don't see the
reason of making a fine adjustment without seeing the numerical value of
what I change (and now don't suggest to "just open the fan to the
opposite direction" :-). Can some kind of transparency be added? Or maybe
even better, can the numerical value be shown as part of the fan
(somewhere in its middle perhaps?)
Is there something I am missing? The idea is quite nice, but I feel like
the concept has not been thought out until the end..
In the original concept the fans were meant to be transparent.
And the next Xorg release might make it possible to nicely implement
them that way. But Pete will be working on Specimen itself for a while.
The main scenario for the sliders is setting the value according
to your senses (how it sounds or looks right), not staring at
some numbers anyway.
And opening the fan in a direction where it will not hide something
you want to still see isn't the worst idea.
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Thorsten Wilms