Resizing/rotating applets

[Jason Stubbs]

On Sunday 06 January 2008 06:08:51 JST, 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.
>
> We might want to either change that key to ALT (or allow both) to be
> consistent with KOffice.

When the resize button is close to the center vertically, resizing just a 
single pixel dramatically increases the height. Moving the resize button to 
the top-left would be a quick workaround, but perhaps resizing should be 
calculated based on the distance rather than on ratios? That is, moving the 
mouse one pixel away from the initial click would increase by 2 pixels (one 
on the top and one on the bottom) so that the position of the button becomes 
irrelevant...

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Jason Stubbs