Why rotate widgets?

[nuno pinheiro]

On Tuesday 07 September 2010 14:24:19 Yuen Hoe Lim wrote:
> 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.

fixing now

> 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.

+1 it dosent get you your way, 
Dont get me wrong there are lots features we have to much of, are clutered and 
stand in your way. and im more than willing to help you guys remove them. But 
this is not the case.

> ----
> 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.
> > 
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