Vertical orientation

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With the use of wide-screen displays becoming the norm, and the oh-so-cool
netbooks that are popping up, it would seem to make sense to implement a
vertical orientation for tint.

Most folks would have no problem reading their window titles sideways in
exchange for being able to actually make use of the full height of their
display.

You'd be ahead of the curve in doing this.  I haven't been able to find any
other task manager with the capability yet.

I have a Sharp Widenote @ 1280x800, and an MSI Wind U100 @ 1024x600.

I love tint.  Thanks!

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jesselan...@gmail.com on 4 Mar 2009 at 11:36

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good vertical orientation is another challenge...

Original comment by thilo...@gmail.com on 5 Mar 2009 at 8:15

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I would add that vertical orientation could mean two things. Maybe both could be
supported? In either case, the panel would be displayed on the sides of the 
monitor.

1. The first alternative is to make the side panel like if you grabbed the 
horizontal
panel and rotated it 90 degrees clock- or counter-clockwise. This would include
application icons, text, etc. So everything would appear rotated.

2. The second (easier in my opinion) is to just stick the panel on the borders, 
keep
its current orientation, and simply make the tasklist grow vertically (tasks 
would be
piled instead of lined up). In this mode, using only the application icon (and 
no
text) would still make a thin, sidebar panel.

Original comment by st.ne...@gmail.com on 10 May 2009 at 12:05

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I prefer St. Never's second solution. Sideways text is highly disorienting. 
This way
would be like a nifty dock.

Original comment by mock.br...@gmail.com on 22 May 2009 at 4:37

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Yeah, solution number two there is exactly what I am looking for.  Any word on 
if/when this might make it into tint2?

Thanks :)

Original comment by sugarde...@gmail.com on 21 Jun 2009 at 9:56

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solution 2 is the best. 
if we want to implement vertical orientation, it's the way to go.

saying when it can be done is another challenge :)

I will try to look the impact on actual design.

Original comment by thilo...@gmail.com on 21 Jun 2009 at 11:32

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push some code in svn.
check sample file tintrc05 and tintrc06.
you have to disable systray in config file (not yet done).

Original comment by thilo...@gmail.com on 23 Jun 2009 at 7:15

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r124 include vertical panel.

  user's parameters :
  1) add 'vertical' to panel_position (panel_position = center left vertical)
  2) use 'task_width' to define the task height (task_width = 30)
  3) adjust paddingy on task and systray will define the size of icons
  all others parameters are automatically converted by tint2
  (x padding become y padding, width become height ...)
  so user's change between horizontal and vertical are minimised.

Original comment by thilo...@gmail.com on 24 Jun 2009 at 8:20

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