17 Jul
2004
17 Jul
'04
7:43 p.m.
Chris Cannam wrote:
On Saturday 17 Jul 2004 9:46 pm, Jonathan Segel
wrote:
Oh no! This subject has just been the subject of a 200+-article
flamewar (sorry, I mean constructive discussion) over on LAD. Are
sliders always better than knobs, or do knobs have their place? Is
it better to operate knobs linearly, or with a rotary mouse motion?
As far as I could tell there was absolutely no consensus, though it
was fairly widely agreed that (i) neither is perfect, (ii) most
people with an opinion have a _really strong_ opinion, (iii) it would
be nice to have consistency about things like which mouse operation
resets the control to its default, and (iv) people like arguing about
this stuff.
I'm keeping my own opinion out of it this time. Arnold, I suggest you
try them both out thoroughly in a real world situation, pick the one
you prefer to use, and stick to that.
Is there a problem with giving the user preferences to control it all?
If done for all apps, seems like a good way to get consistency and also
give users what they want.
Chris
consider
returning to some sort of sliders, they're far more
convenient in a GUI, since their movement follow better the
movement of the mouse.
i'm betting that the way it actually is manipulated is that drawing
a straight line with the mouse up or down turns the knob [...]