Why rotate widgets?

[nuno pinheiro]

On Tuesday 07 September 2010 17:05:31 todd rme wrote:
> I personally use it in two different ways.  One is that I have my
> sticky note rotated a little bit to make it more visually distinctive.
>  The other is that I have two fuzzy clocks rotated so their left edges
> are roughly tangent to the edge of the clock where they touch it
> (about 30 degrees above and below the left edge).  I also used a
> rotated eyes as an example and had a upside-down bkodoma widget which
> made it look like he was walking on the ceiling.
> 
> Another possibility for the icon: what if you made it similar to the
> resize icon, a rectangle?  The rectangle would be rotated a little bit
> (maybe 10-45 degrees).  A couple things could be added to make it more
> clear.  One possibility would be to have a second rectangle in the
> background, occluded by the first rectangle except for the corners.
> Another would be some of arrows or vibrations to indicate the
> rectangle is moving.  I attached a mockup of an example.

i have the icon fixed just need to convert my http checkout from svn to ssh 
what is teh comand again :)?

> -Todd
> 
> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 6:06 AM, Asraniel <asraniel at fryx.ch> wrote:
> > For example my girlfriend has all her picture frames slightly rotated.
> > But i can't think of a usecase for turning them totaly upside down.
> > 
> > Beat Wolf
> > 
> > Am Dienstag 07 September 2010, um 12.00:15 schrieb Markus Slopianka:
> >> Hi.
> >> I wonder why Plasma widgets in Plasma Desktop can be rotated. Why would
> >> anyone need individual widgets to be upside down? Isn't this one of
> >> those micro-options we once stated to get rid of?
> >> 
> >> Markus
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