ggm@brolga.cc.uq.oz (George Michaelson) (07/14/89)
I find I have more "vertical" space than "horizontal" in my 15" screen.
Some window objects make more sense being as un-obscured as possible,
which you can take as a tendency towards tiling the window rather than
overlapping. faces, xload being my two preferred examples.
The Athena load widget is written assuming a horizontal orientation
(ie being "read" left-to-right) but a graph is a graph whichever
way you hold it. In this situation, I want to fill my long thin vertical
gaps with load widgits and not obscure parts of other screens. This would
show cpu load like a chart-plotter in an old-timey Lab... gently scrolling
down the edge of the screen.
Fine, fine... delve into lib/Xaw/Load.c and find the central DrawLine()
call... reverse the x & y co-ords and I suppose it would all work, but
then I have to re-build the library and any referencing tool(s) which
are unknown in number.... and what about all the other "graph"-like widgits?
So: this is a plea for anybody building generally useful drawing or
icon-stacking (faces?) widgits: *PLEASE* make them settable via .Xdefaults
for a vertical orientation as well as horizontal!
-George
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Postal: George Michaelson, Prentice Computer Centre
Queensland University, St Lucia, QLD 4067