Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] fence-like levelmeter

[thomas schorpp <t schorpp gmx de>]

thomas schorpp wrote:
> thomas schorpp wrote:
>
> > Jan Schampera wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Hi Devs,
> >
> >
> > hi Jan,
> >
> >
> >
> > > Damien asked me to do some ressearch on a widget that can give a "link
> > > quality" status. Imagine it in the lower left corner, right next to the
> > > status text of the main window.
> >
> >
> > 1.) ergonomics analysis
> >
> >
> >
> > > The animation is composed of the 5 states the widget can show 0-1-2-3-4.
> >
> >
> > ok, every kid with a mobile knows and can read this symbol
> >
> >
> >
> > > I tried to get some color relation to the Ekiga logo (a darker orange
> > > and a lighter one).
> >
> >
> > mozilla does not show any brightness differences here.
> >
> > marketing priorities with technical meter ergonomics collision:
> >
> > every quality meter (like for tv-apps) must be light-green, or risk 
> > of user symbol misinterpretation/confusion (rising quality or error rate?).
> > color steps from red over yellow to green (~<20% statistic median of lost packets or so) 
> > are more easy for users to report and communicate to the devs in case 
> > of problems. IMHO.
> > On STUN problems the symbol should flash light red/yellow with f=2Hz.  
> >
> >
> >
> > > Technically the widget will take a level value between 0.0 and 1.0 and
> > > will recalculate it internally, that way one can change the view (maybe
> > > more bars) and doesn't need to change external calculation code. The
> > > widget will be native 22px to 22px (icons).
> >
> >
> > looks ok.
> >
> >
> >
> > > Any comments about the optics so far? The widget code isn't ready yet.
>
>
> 2.) code:
>
> gint
> gtk_fencemeter4_get_index_by_level (gfloat level)
> {
>   /* FIXME i need some arithmetics */

no. possible iso-osi layer or OO-design violatiom.
gui layer classes dont do such work, belongs to core 
layer or special functions class. 

>   if (level == 0.0)
>     return 0;
>
>   if (level > 0.0 && level <= 0.25)
>     return 1;
>
>
> > is float mandatory here? makes no sense since big 
>
> rounding steps.
>
>
>
> > > http://www.thebonsai.de/images/gtkfencemeter4_ani.gif
> > >
> > >
> > > J.
> >
> >
> > y
> > tom
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