Resizing/rotating applets

Alex Merry huntedhacker at tiscali.co.uk
Sun Jan 6 03:58:33 CET 2008


At Saturday 05 January 2008 23:40, you wrote:
> 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.

That's fair enough, but it is something people find confusing.

Alex


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