[openbox] Vertical title bar for windows?

zlatko kartelo zlatko.kartelo at web.de
Sun Jan 6 15:14:13 EST 2013


On Sun, 2013-01-06 at 13:01 +0000, Paul wrote:
> On Saturday, 05 January, 2013 at 19:00:21 GMT, zlatko kartelo wrote:
> >What do you think about a vertical title bar? (With my limited knowledge
> >of C and X development) I think this should be easy to implement if you
> >know where to do it ;)
> 
> With shortscreen displays so prevalent these days, providing ample horizontal space and limited vertical space, I initially thought this would be a good idea. However, titles would be rather difficult to read if they were one character wide vertical.
> 

Yes, but it's not that hard to read vertical words. And it makes not
that big difference if the characters are rotated or not. I googled
vertical text pictures, but looking around in real life gives a lot
examples.
The window title is more a side info and doesn't need to be easily
readable.



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