Re: [linux-audio-dev] Knobs / widget design

I for one dislike the knob design, you just cannot make fine adjustments easily. Someone said that you can take the mouse out to a greater radius from the knob, but that is just plain silly. While you move the mouse out from the knob, you're bound to make small adjustments to the value of the knob, unless you're a super-human, ultra-precision mouser! This means that you're original value of the knob has been lost, and you'd have to live with that, or move it to it's original position first, and then make your slight adjustment. Also, it's just not natural for me to move my mouse in a circle, the natural movement of my hand is not a circle, try to draw a perfect circle in the Gimp sometime by mouse! This means, that at different parts of the knob tweaking, you'd be changing value by an unpredictable amount depending on how good your circle is. This means also that left-handed mousers are going to change values at the opposite sensitivity level at different parts of the motion. There is no easy solution as far as I can see, but what about a few physical knobs, cheaply built, that send some kind of data via USB or something that can change values. That's the best way I reckon, except for the cost factor. I'll keep thinking about a purely software solution though. Dan