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On 09/10/2010 02:37 AM, Loki Davison wrote:

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> On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 6:15 AM, Olivier Guilyardi  wrote:

>> Actually, I used the fansliders before, in the very same place :) But there were

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>> two things that I didn't like:

>> - the way they look, especially when unfolded, those ugly/huge shapes around

>> - the fact that unwanted changes happen when you go away to gain precision

>>

>> That's why I made those sliders IIRC. You have increased precision right after

>> clicking, you don't need to move away for that. Plus, with the way they are

>> integrated and some mouse magic, it doesn't matter if the window is closed to a

>> screen border or not. And I think they look neat ;)

>

> Fansliders are lovely ideas, but the current implementation is pretty

> crappy, and I haven't look at the code in years and didn't have a

> clear idea about what I was doing with it last time anyway. Now that x

> composite is a lot more common it would be easier. I'm surprised

> Thorsten hasn't jumped in to the knob discussion yet. If anyone else

> wants to fix fan sliders feel free to give me a yell.

Since I used fan sliders in my app, I've been thinking a lot about them, and I'm

not sure they're such a great idea, for the reasons outlined above. And I saw

some sound engineers getting really confused when first trying them. But this

might be because they were just surprised.
> I still think knobs are pretty evil though. :)
Well, as I previously said, I think that knobs can make sense in certain

situations. So I'd rather see the phat knob improved ;) I think that's a really

cool widget, it provides a very clear visual indication, but it only supports

the circle movements.
It would be great if there were runtime options to customize the phat knob

behavior, to also support up/down and/or left/right, fine-tuning with a key

modifier, etc..
Providing alternative styles would also be very cool.
--

  Olivier
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