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Re: some thoughts
by Gabriel Gazzán on Wednesday 06/Sep/2006, @09:31

- The "Edit Values..." option in the context menu mainly allows the user to redefine the span of the slider (its Mínimum and Maximum values). This is sometimes useful in certain cases where the default span is so big that you lose precision while dragging (perhaps changing from 1 to 2 is already a great change in the effect, but as the slider goes from -1000 to + 1000, each time you drag the value changes too much and the slider turns "incontrolable", so lowering the span of the slider increases this precision while dragging and makes it comfortable again).
In theory the span should be preset by the programmer to "useful" values, but often users use effects in situations not foreseen by the programmer, so I guess is in these cases when this option is more appreciated.

- The other useful option in the context menu, is one allowing to "Reset" the value to their default state. Good after you've been experimenting and want to return safe home. :)

p.s. I completely agree on the current state of sliders in Qt/KDE, I never use them, to me they are useless and I end entering values by hand, which is very disrupting, workflow wise.
"Lightwave 3D" and "3ds max" are good examples of programs with good and useful sliders, but to be honest since Adobe introduced this kind of "nano" slider I prefer it over everything else, as they've had a very strong impact in how the (same) applications feel by improving the workflow tremendously.

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Re: some thoughts
by Gabriel Gazzán on Wednesday 06/Sep/2006, @16:36

> p.s. I completely agree on the current state of sliders in Qt/KDE

I really meant the up and down buttons to the right of numeric input boxes, not the sliders.
My confusion came from the fact that in some programs (e.g. Autodesk 3ds Max) this buttons function as sliders when dragging up and down over them, so I tend to see them as sliders too.

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