On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 01:10:44PM +0530, Kingsly John wrote: > +++ Ethan Blanton [2003-03-10 01:34:31]: > > > Kingsly John spake unto us the following wisdom: > > > Are you left-handed by any chance? because I don't find it intuitive at > > > all, > > > whenever there is sideways text, it's almost always with the base of the > > > letters facing right.(Look for any widthwise ads in magazines.. and you'll > > > find that the top of the ad is at the left end of the page.) > > > (I flipped through a bunch of magazines lying here and looked at some > > > hardware boxes and I couldn't find anything which had bottom-top text with > > > the base facing left. and even when I'm making notes in the margin the > > > base > > > of my letters face the right.) > > > > Sort of ... look at your bookshelf. Unless you're Russian, but your > > name doesn't sound it. ;-) > > Looks like I overlooked the obvious! Even my game boxes have text facing > left(the same applies to CD/DVD cases too). But whenever there is text facing > both directions (regular and sideways) the the base faces right. I guess > that's why the magazine ads are that way because of the text on the other > page.
We really did think about the better text rotation. When the title is at the left side of the window, it is more likely that the title is left from the middle of your face. Assuming that one tends to tilt the head towards the window title (and definitely never away from it), this somewhat reduces the angle at which you look at the text. That said, I think it's a bad decision to place the odd numbered title buttons near the beginning of the title. They always belong at the top of the window. Anything else is utterly confusing. I see no real dependency between the orientation of the title and the placement of the buttons. They just happened to be near the beginning of the title by chance. [snip] Bye Dominik ^_^ ^_^ -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL:http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm-workers" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
