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Excerpts from hermann's message of 2011-11-24 21:31:22 +0100:

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> Am Donnerstag, den 24.11.2011, 14:21 -0500 schrieb David Robillard:

> > Middle click to "go here" is a convention from scroll bars dating back

> > to the dawn of X11.  Using something easily done accidentally (and

> > unknowingly) for learn doesn't seem like the best idea to me.

> >

> > That said, some laptops don't have middle buttons...

>

> I think most modern apps use middle mouse button today for midi

> connection. Laptops witch didn't have a middle mouse button often even

> didn't have a midi in connection so there is nothing to loose.

> And, for that case one can provide a midi table to choose connections

> from.

Plug in an external interface (like basically everyone does) and it has

a midi connection. Also, jack doesn't need a midi hardware device to be

useful.
> A click to "go here", seems on the other hand like a bad Idea for me.

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> Most time you have a underling adjustment witch have a much wider range

> then the screen counterpart (the controller) represent so that it is

> impossible to click on a point and get the wonted value. 

I'd worry about left/right buttons first, find agreement on basic stuff,

worry about the leftovers later.
> But overall, a agreement about the different use cases of controller

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> keys will be very fine and useful for the Linux Audio World.

Yes, I'm also very much pro a convention. I don't see any real solution

to the problem that different human interface guidelines create in

general, and it's a real mess on linux or when you want to go cross

platform, but a convention for Linux Audio sure wouldn't hurt.
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