Rotating applets

[Michael Rudolph]

On Monday 16 June 2008 15:22:20 Riccardo Iaconelli wrote:
> Hello,
> currently, because of proxy widgets and int-precision, rotating
> widgets often leads to bad glitches. Moreover, I don't think it's an
> useful feature for most of the applets... what is the point of
> rotating applets like twitter? I agree that it might be useful e.g.

Hi Riccardo,

there are plenty of use cases. Although you are probably right, that 
right now they might be hard to anticipate.

Imagine containment layouts getting a bit more advanced, especially with 
a physics engine powered layout, it might be necessary to freely rotate 
applets, for example when applets bounce into one another.

In general, multi-user input, like on touchwalls and tablet-pcs, 
necessitates the ability to orient interface elements towards different 
users, who are placed around the display.

I hope that helps.

michael

> on devices with gyros, but then all the desktop would need to rotate,
> and not individual plasmoids only. Therefore I'd like to propose to
> make the rotation optional, with the last word given by the plasmoid
> author (let's make it a flag, like with the background), and off by
> default.
>
> What do you think? Can you suggest any good API?
>
> Bye,
> -Riccardo