I really like the enlarged handles. I thinking a nice feature would be, if you could increase or lower the velocity of the notes by mouse-overing the handles and using the scroll wheel of the mouse.
I really like the enlarged handles. I thinking a nice feature would be, if you could increase or lower the velocity of the notes by mouse-overing the handles and using the scroll wheel of the mouse.
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This could interfere with the vertical scrolling of the timline's content. Imagine you want to scroll through the timeline's content and a velocity handle moves under your cursor. What would happen if you continue to scroll?
Another problem is the direction of scrolling: when using a down-gesture on a touch-pad everyone expects the velocity to decrease. But the scroll direction for contents differs between system configurations.
And if you could only adjust the handles with the scroll wheel if they are selected?
I'd think the direction thing shouldn't be a problem, since the user would be used to his or her system configuration? Or can't you read the configuration of the users system?
As far as vertical scrolling goes, the timeline panel is like a matriuska of scrollable areas one within another: you can scroll the whole timeline list, an expanded note region inside it, the piano roll inside the note region itself, and potentially the velocity area. Personally I think that scrolling is meant to be a navigational tool (move around content that extends beyond the viewing area's boundaries), not as an editing tool (changing the content itself). And I think that interface actions should clearly distinguish between the two (navigating versus editing). Therefore I'd reject this feature because it's trying to do the second thing.
I think that reading system configurations is hard for an app executing inside a browser. I remember another request that involved reading the keyboard type (QUERTY versus QWERTZ) and this was already hard to do according to the developers.
We can't read that configuration so it would not be intuitive for more than a few users.
Even though I agree that the method of changing the velocity could be improved, I don't think the scroll-wheel is the right method.
I agree with @jordynth argumentation.