Resizing/rotating applets

Aaron J. Seigo aseigo at kde.org
Sun Jan 6 00:40:17 CET 2008


On Saturday 05 January 2008, Alex Merry wrote:
> A few people commented on my blog that the resize/rotate interface
> wasn't really intuitive.  I agree - expecially the fact that you use
> the "rotate" icon to resize the applet.
>
> Attached is a patch that adds a "resize" button.  Rotate now just
> rotates, and resize does free resizing unless you hold CTRL, in which
> case aspect ratio is maintained.

hm. i'd prefer to maintain aspect ratio by default as it's generally better: 
the applet sets a good aspect ratio and the user just makes it bigger or 
smaller.

otherwise .. i'm cool with this.

> We might want to either change that key to ALT (or allow both) to be
> consistent with KOffice.

both sounds good to me.

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