Thread: Portrait mode use cases
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2009-09-03 , 15:11
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#163
Originally Posted by johnkzin View Post
"While we agree that 20 peanuts is a great snack, we feel that 10 peanuts is too few. Therefore, we're going to give you ZERO peanuts."

So, rather than restricting users/applets "like that", you're restricting them to an even larger extent?

Given the choice between "quirky but workable rotation" and "no rotation", I think you'll find that "quirky but workable" will win. Certainly it's not as good as a better solution, that should be delivered as soon as it can be made to work cleanly and reliably ... but in the mean time, _some_ capability is better than _none_.

10 peanuts may be too few, but it's more/better than zero peanuts.
Well, I really hope that you're half-kidding with this.

Making it crappier for the main use case, to support another use case, it's not a tradeoff without any loss. The beauty of the Home canvases now is that you can do free and pixel perfect layouts. Place items exactly where you want, as many as you want, and the items can be relatively free sizes. Align items with the wallpaper image etc.

Following the clever analogies, what pearl of wisdom could I come up with...

Either you can be the architect of your own home, and design it the way you like, make the walls and measurements down to an inch. And "it only works in landscape", the building would topple down if you turn it. Or you can build your home out of a couple of huge lego blocks, in which case you can also turn the whole cube around 90 degrees.

Ok, it's the best analogy on the internets. Or then not.

(And yes, there are of course other ways to solve this.)

But please, it's not zero peanuts.
 

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