▲ 965 ▼ The media controls on my car. Previous and Next are Up and Down. Volume Up and Down are Right and Left. (lemmy.world) submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world to c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world 139 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Gordon@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Having grown up in the tape era, the right button being next / fast forward just make sense. I can see on a screen that you'd scroll down to get to the bottom of a playlist, but isn't your finger moving up? This is the classic problem of inverted vertical controls or not? Just avoid it altogether and make the back / skip button left / right respectively, and volume be up / down which just makes obvious sense. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago It's not scrolling though - using the arrow keys on a keyboard or d-pad on a controller you'd use up to go up and down to go down when navigating documents, menus etc. As far as I'm aware unlike when you're moving a viewport either by scrolling or in games there's no debate when it comes to moving a caret. And as you said, "having grown up in the tape era". Just because it was logical for that application and so is logical to you doesn't mean it's still logical - people who grew up with record players could just as easily argue for two spinning knobs as you're moving a potentiometer to increase/decrease the volume, and spinning the record forward/back; having grown up in the CD era I had both of them being up/down or left/right as the buttons were either beneath or either side of the slot/hatch most of the time, same with tv remotes having both as up/down, and given there was no standard then I don't think either one "just makes sense" permalink fedilink source parent
[–] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago It's not scrolling though - using the arrow keys on a keyboard or d-pad on a controller you'd use up to go up and down to go down when navigating documents, menus etc. As far as I'm aware unlike when you're moving a viewport either by scrolling or in games there's no debate when it comes to moving a caret. And as you said, "having grown up in the tape era". Just because it was logical for that application and so is logical to you doesn't mean it's still logical - people who grew up with record players could just as easily argue for two spinning knobs as you're moving a potentiometer to increase/decrease the volume, and spinning the record forward/back; having grown up in the CD era I had both of them being up/down or left/right as the buttons were either beneath or either side of the slot/hatch most of the time, same with tv remotes having both as up/down, and given there was no standard then I don't think either one "just makes sense" permalink fedilink source parent
