Why rotate widgets?

[Yuen Hoe Lim]

Regarding the rotate icon, perhaps making the arrow go just half a circle
round or less (and maybe add a dot in the middle) instead of a full round
like now might make it less reload-like? Just a thought. All reload buttons
I've seen are nearly full-circle, since it's supposed to suggest a cycle.
Rotation on the other hand I think becomes obvious as long as there is
enough arrow to show that it's going around a circle.

And I like the rotate feature. New users I've shown it to so far liked it
too. I think people like to tinker with things, as long as it doesn't get in
their way. My hunch is a good number of people will be unhappy if we took
off rotation.

----
Jason "moofang" Lim Yuen Hoe
http://yuenhoe.co.cc/



On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 9:07 PM, nuno pinheiro <nuno at oxygen-icons.org> wrote:

> On Tuesday 07 September 2010 13:48:53 Markus Slopianka wrote:
> > On Tuesday 07 September 2010 12:11:52 nuno pinheiro wrote:
> > > let me ask its the other way arround,  why not?
> >
> > "Because we can" is the worst possible reason for anything.
> >
> > > does it create visual cluter? no..
>
> > Sure it does. Every additional button adds clutter, even if only by a
> small
> > amount. Why a rotate button? Why not a "Mirror horizontally" button? Why
> > not a transparency slider?
>
> NO IT dosent, puting my designers hat. that tollbar is not clutered,
> minimalist as i like to be but to much empty space is also bad. that
> toolbar
> is clean and as just about the correct amount of butons.
>
>
>
> > > on the plus side its a good marketing tool----- see i can rotate the
> > > clock
> > >
> > > :) do that in windows will you...
>
> >Reply:
> >shrug "Why would I want to rotate a clock?"
>
> Why woud i want to play tictack toe? Why woud i want place my windows in
> difrent positions? Why woud i want this or that.
> becouse its fun becaouse we can becouse we are not creating harmfull
> confusion
> to the users.
>
> we se say cluter specialy how aron was saying it was I think we mentioned
> the
> way we have to hide usefull features in the mist of tons of uneeded ones.
> in this case its 4 litle options, wich is not hiding in any way the other
> more
> important options.
>
> --
> oxygen guy, "I make the pretty pictures"
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