Vertical text in taskbar

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Saturday 23 August 2008, Marco Martin wrote:
> On Saturday 23 August 2008, Javier Goday wrote:
> > Hi, i made a small patch to show vertical text in the taskbar when the
> > panel is vertical.
>
> Hi,
> posting the patch in http://reviewboard.vidsolbach.de it's easier to
> comment on the single patch lines..
> btw, i like the idea, but only when the size is small, since a very common
> usage ov vertical panel is to keep them very large
> maybe could be made dynamic, like switch to vertical tesx when thexe is no
> room for more than an x number of characters?
> this could be used as a fallback on sizes where now the text simply becomes
> unreadable

i wonder if there are people who use a small taskbar like this but rely on the 
icon + tooltip instead? hrm. but yes, if this were to go in, it would have to 
be limited to small panels; also, the icon in the screenshots is on the 
"wrong" side (look at the kate window in the same shot =)

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