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please no vertical running text
by cies on Tuesday 23/Jan/2007, @17:02

vertial running text is a design flaw in many case; allthough we can do it quite easily with oure strong qt backend i argue against all its use (in horzontal languages).

there are about 3 words we can easily read vertical:

B
A
R

,

H
O
T
E
L

and

S
E
X

the others take significantly more time to recognise.

(ok i understand that my examples are not exactly fit for use in this arguement :-/ sorry, i hope you get my point though...)

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Re: please no vertical running text
by Mark Kretschmann on Wednesday 24/Jan/2007, @01:28

Hehe :)

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Re: please no vertical running text
by Carlo on Thursday 25/Jan/2007, @15:01

While funny, he's absolutely right. In some apps you use more often, you simply memorize in which region you have to click to change the sidebar view. But actually having to read the labels on these vertical tabs, sucks. It would be much better to spend a bit more horizontal space and use well chosen pictograms, instead labels. Problem is the (non-)accessibility of pictograms.

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Re: please no vertical running text
by winter on Wednesday 24/Jan/2007, @04:49

It's not the same kind of vertical text. That text is rotated, which is easier to read than vertical text, IMO.

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Re: please no vertical running text
by cies on Wednesday 24/Jan/2007, @15:15

indeed, that's what i meant by:

> > i understand that my examples are not exactly fit for use in this argument

still the other kind of vertical that is used in the mock-ups is not quickfast readable/recognizable. people even tend to turn their head for these kinds of tasks: really!

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Re: please no vertical running text
by Cerulean on Thursday 25/Jan/2007, @14:09

I think entries are meant to be primarily recognised by their icon. In that case tilting your head to read the text seems fairly acceptable as it shouldn't be happening too often.

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Re: please no vertical running text
by Henk on Friday 26/Jan/2007, @01:47

In fact, I did turn my head! I see the space saving, but it is not read at glance.

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