FOSDEM 2010: making the Equalizer a dock widget?

[Ben K]

Rather than using sliders, why not use dials to adjust EQ? This achieves a
few good things:

   1. Reduces the screen real estate needed to display the graphic equalizer
   2. Greatly increases the sensitivity and accuracy of the equalizer
   control (since we can click and hold, then move the mouse off the dial and
   still adjust, the effective length of the circular 'slider' represented by
   the dial is pi x distance to nearest screen edge squared!)
   3. Let's us build an EQ that looks more like a professional mixing board
   than a software EQ, which arguably is cool.


On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 11:06 PM, Enrico Ros <eros.kde at email.it> wrote:

> I talked to the guy proposing the idea and he had a couple of points:
>
>  1. the equalizer took half of the screen in the Fosdem talk and it's "made
> of
> sliders", so he thought a graphical one with a "paint-like" approach will
> be
> less space consuming.
>
>  2. since he likes to modify the sound a lot, he would like to have it
> somewhere on the main window, so the 'dockable' idea (maybe undocked by
> default) is good stuff for him.
>
> Plus I think that the per-track equalization may be a really good
> achievement
> for Amarok.
>
> Enrico
>
> On Monday 08 February 2010 11:57:00 Sven Krohlas wrote:
> > Heya,
> >
> > some interesting idea showed up during my talk: one user suggested
> > to make the equalizer a dock widget, that can be put together with
> > playlist, media sources and context into the main window. I was a
> > bit surprised about the idea, especially as half of the audience
> > spontaneously(!!) hold up their hands to show they agree with it.
> >
> > So I promised to put it up for discussion. As I don't use the
> > equalizer usually I personally don't seem to have a usecase for
> > it but clearly that seems to be different for others.
> >
> > Thinking one step further:
> > maybe it even makes sense to do this for all dialogs in the
> > tools menu? Especially if you use the widgets in a tabbed style.
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