On 17 Mar 2002 07:54:46 +0100, Olivier Chapuis wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 02:56:54PM +0000, Mikhael Goikhman wrote: > > > > So I think my names are not ambiguos because they speak about rotation and > > names like LeftTitleBottomToTop are somewhat ambiguos, because not every > > language naturally written BottomToTop is rotated against the clock. > > Which language(s)?
Arabic versus English? My point is this. TextWrittenBottomToTop may mean every thing. TextRotatedClockWise may mean only one thing. > > > > So, maybe to clear the same confusion for side titles, name the options > > > > as: > > > > > > > > LeftTitleUpsideRight / LeftTitleUpsideLeft (default) > > > > RightTitleUpsideRight (default) / RightTitleUpsideLeft > > > > TopTitleUpsideUp (default) / TopTitleUpsideDown > > > > BottomTitleUpsideUp (default) / BottomTitleUpsideDown > > > > > > Here I am really confused, maybe the reason is that my english is > > > poor, but I am unable to understand the logic of these names :o) > > > > I may only guess that my usage of the word "Upside" is correct, I think > > yes. An explanation of my options when the text is "OK". > > > > The sentence "... the upper side of the text ..." clearly explain > the meaning of your config option names. > > > > > UpsideDown means that the text is rotated like this: > > > > >| <> > > ----- > > > > I do not understand for what we need TopTitleUpsideDown and > BottomTitleUpsideDown style. > > Also to add to my confusion if you take the string "MA" > UpsideDown means the follwing rotation: > > | |\__/ > |/\| \/ > -------- > > what about > > \__/| | > \/ |/\| > -------- > > ? :o) Only the second resulted from a rotation, this is useful. The first one resulted from a mirroring, this is not useful. > Really I am ready to adopt any naming scheme. I take 2 hours > to write this message and now I am quite nervous! > Two hours for nothing ... Sorry about this. Well, we all spend a lot of hours just reading email... > Please send 2 or 4 names and concrete explaination for > the horizontal rotations. LeftTitleRotatedClockWise / LeftTitleRotatedCounterClockWise RightTitleRotatedClockWise / RightTitleRotatedCounterClockWise I don't really suggest to implement the following 2, but anyway: TopTitleNotRotated / TopTitleRotated BottomTitleNotRotated / BottomTitleRotated BTW, I really like your work on xft, it is amazing. Regards, Mikhael. -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL:http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm-workers" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
