Re: [E-devel] Idea for core mixer module

2006-01-22 Thread Michael Hughes
Bjornar Ness The idea of using the mouse wheel is a good one - if you have a wheel mouse. I much prefer a trackball and many people now use laptops with touchpads as their primary computers. I am pretty sure that tablet computers with active screens and a stylus (like a big PDA) is the next

Re: [E-devel] Idea for core mixer module

2006-01-22 Thread The Rasterman
On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 17:02:54 +0100 Morten Nilsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: Michael Hughes wrote: The idea of using the mouse wheel is a good one - if you have a wheel mouse. I much prefer a trackball and many people now use laptops with touchpads as their primary computers. I am

Re: [E-devel] Idea for core mixer module

2006-01-22 Thread Morten Nilsen
Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: now that itray is in, I'd very much like to see a mixer app live in it.. I guess such apps exist allready, but if someone took it upon themselves to make one that fits into e17, that would rock indeed. to fit into e17 better - make it a module :) itray

Re: [E-devel] Idea for core mixer module

2006-01-22 Thread The Rasterman
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 02:31:08 +0100 Morten Nilsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: now that itray is in, I'd very much like to see a mixer app live in it.. I guess such apps exist allready, but if someone took it upon themselves to make one that fits into

Re: [E-devel] Idea for core mixer module

2006-01-22 Thread Morten Nilsen
Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: well frankly- for e17, i'm not considering anything audio at all. it's deviod of futzing with audio in any way - and it will likely stay there until we: 2. have decided on how to abstrac aduio support I don't see any point to adding any kind of sound

Re: [E-devel] Idea for core mixer module

2006-01-22 Thread David Seikel
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 12:06:23 +0900 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well frankly- for e17, i'm not considering anything audio at all. it's deviod of futzing with audio in any way - and it will likely stay there until we: 1. have finished a lot of other things 2.

Re: [E-devel] Idea for core mixer module

2006-01-22 Thread The Rasterman
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 14:49:30 +1000 David Seikel [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 12:06:23 +0900 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well frankly- for e17, i'm not considering anything audio at all. it's deviod of futzing with audio in any way - and it

[E-devel] Idea for core mixer module

2006-01-21 Thread Bjornar Ness
This is my idea for a core e17 mixer module: I dont like sliders. They take up too much space on my desktop, and are really not that pleasing to look at. What I would like is a mixing module that look like the one you find on your stereo, a knob. Something like this:

Re: [E-devel] Idea for core mixer module

2006-01-21 Thread Bjornar Ness
Forgot one thing in the mail. Would also like the module to be easily available when when windows are covering the desktop. This could be done with a overlay similar to the alt-tab windows list or alt-esc run command.. showing the configured channels in a table of some sort, with same

Re: [E-devel] Idea for core mixer module

2006-01-21 Thread Michael Hughes
Bjornar Ness I think that animated knobs are hard manipulate with a mouse pointer and they have to be quite large to work at all. You can go to hardware such as: http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/powermate/index.php but I have not heard if this can be interfaced in Linux easily. I

Re: [E-devel] Idea for core mixer module

2006-01-21 Thread Pavel Boldin
Bjornar Ness wrote: If you do not have a mouse-wheel (laptops w/o synaptics) it should be possible to click and move pointer left or right of the center-clicked point to make it rotate slow - faster according to distance... saddenly, but mouse wheel action is intercepted by pager module and

Re: [E-devel] Idea for core mixer module

2006-01-21 Thread Bjornar Ness
Pavel Boldin skrev: Bjornar Ness wrote: If you do not have a mouse-wheel (laptops w/o synaptics) it should be possible to click and move pointer left or right of the center-clicked point to make it rotate slow - faster according to distance... saddenly, but mouse wheel action is intercepted