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Vertical text
by AC on Thursday 03/Apr/2003, @17:11
That looks cool. How come when KDE writes text in a vertical (rotated 90 degrees) manner, it isn't pretty and anti-aliased like normal text is? The Kate sidebars are the same way...
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Re: Vertical text
by George Staikos on Thursday 03/Apr/2003, @17:18
It's the same code actually. Konqueror shares that widget with kate. You should ask Joseph Wenninger, the author of KMultiTabBar.
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Re: Vertical text
by Martin on Thursday 03/Apr/2003, @22:26
And sub-pixel-anti-aliasing must be disabled automatically because
it relys on the physical left-to-right RGB order of the pixels on an LCD screen.
Otherwise people with sub-pixel-aliasing on would see coloured edges on each
letter. Does X support vertical anti-aliasing at all?
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  • Re: Vertical text
    by Willy on Friday 04/Apr/2003, @05:41
    Current antialiasing settings allow RGB, BGR and vertical versions of those two (VRGB, VBGR)- I see no problem in dettecting this setting and make fontconfig/Xft render text with apropriate setting at any case when text is to be drawn rotated 90 degrees. Anyway INAFXD (I am not a fontconfig/Xft developer)
    Click to download attachment Screenshot-Gnome-font-properties.png
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Re: Vertical text
by Navindra Umanee on Friday 04/Apr/2003, @02:14
I don't think the vertical tab is very user-friendly at all. Space-efficient, sure, but quite cryptic at first blush. Probably too much functionality there by default.
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  • Re: Vertical text
    by optikSmoke on Friday 04/Apr/2003, @09:47
    I agree. Actually, I've always disliked konqueror's sidebar because of the sidewaysness of it, but more because of the appearance the sidewaysness creates. The huge thick bar separating the sidebar from the rest of konqueror is, IMHO, absolutely fugly. It sticks out like a sore thumb, and makes what otherwise is a beautiful application (when the sidebar is off) look cludgey and archaic. Don't get me wrong, though -- I still prefer konqueror over any other browser, I just don't like the sidebar's appearance.
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    • Re: Vertical text
      by Datschge on Friday 04/Apr/2003, @12:36
      > The huge thick bar separating the sidebar from the rest of konqueror is, IMHO, absolutely fugly.

      I'd word that a little more diplomatically (aka Blixed). ;)

      Besides that I have to agree, Konqueror's "Navigation Panel" is well on the way delivering direct access solutions to every problem you did (and didn't =P) think of. This as a feature on its own is very welcome, but I see less and less use for it in one program's window where it most of the time just takes away space for the content while still not having enough space to be really useful itself (aka crowded). Add to this that it might well be open in multiple of your multiple Konqueror windows and you can't resist calling it a bloath of view space.

      So my proposal would be: Considering that the "Navigation Panel" is more an more becoming a system tool rather than a sidebar for Konqueror, how about making it independent of Konqueror and show it as a part of the desktop's left (or right) border instead? Then you can access all your content and services all the time, and Konqueror can focus on itself again. =)

      (Should I log that as wish at buggy?)
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    • Re: Vertical text
      by uga on Friday 04/Apr/2003, @14:20
      >The huge thick bar separating the sidebar from the rest of konqueror is, IMHO, >absolutely fugly

      If you meant "ugly", I completely agree ;-)

      I wonder if this things is themeable. it looks horrible indeed. That's why I never enable the sidebar. It's like some disturbing bug sticking to the side of konqueror :-(
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    • Re: Vertical text
      by cylab on Sunday 06/Apr/2003, @06:19
      just change the location of the buttons to the left, remove the border and use highlighting instread, like in idea/gideon/etc.
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