[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Wish list - was plucker viewer for 770

[From: Roger Sperberg]

Mikhail Sobolev wrote:

> As for the rotation, there are three possibilities:
> 
> 1. Gtk+ rotation, it's quite suboptimal :) My friend is making some text
> reader, and he found that gtk+ primitive behaves quite differently on
> different platforms (he was checking a desktop computer, a notebook, and
> his zaurus with pdaxrom).
> 
> 2. Quite standard extension -- Xrandr as it was mentioned in the other
> post, but this is not available (as far as I understood due to the
> memory constraints).
> 
> 3. Not so standard extension. And this seems to become available
> eventually.  Most likely not in the first version of the Nokia Internet
> Table software 2005 edition (or whatever it's called).
> 
> Regards,
> 
> --
> 
> 
> Misha
> 
>  IIRC, research shows that text presented in portrait mode is comprehended 
faster and more completely than when presented in landscape. Similarly, 
sidebars, toolbars, status bars, etc., provide visual distractions that slow 
reading down and affect comprehension. You can see that Microsoft believes 
in this research by checking out the Reading Layout view in MS Word, btw.

So I look forward to the day when a booklength text can be read on Internet 
Tablets in full-screen portrait mode. Hopefully that nonstandard extension 
won't take too long to arrive. But I'm excited by what is here already 
(well, just about). And very happy about Nils and Florian's port of Plucker. 
I think even without rotation it presents the highest quality reading 
experience of any e-book reader.

Roger

-- 
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