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Twitter post by Daniel Feldman (@d_feldman): Linux is the only major operating system to support diagonal mode (credit [Twitter] @xssfox). Image shows an untrawide monitor rotated about 45 degrees, with a horizontal IDE window taking up a bottom triangle. A web browser and settings menu above it are organized creating a window shape almost like a stepped pyramid.

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  • @owsei
    27•11 months ago

    even if it’s just mobile

    you already have to handle landscape/portrait mode

    now imagine having to handle angled

    • @grueEnglish
      30•11 months ago

      That’s why you should’ve just handled arbitrary rotations instead of inventing a finite predefined set of orientation “modes” in the first place.

      Things get a lot easier in the long run if you aggressively look for commonalities and genericize the code that handles them instead of writing bunches of one-off special cases.

        • @[email protected]English
          11•11 months ago

          Peak evil - well done. How much is the extra fee to wrap a letterbox around the circle on a conventional aspect ratio?

          There’s good money in this idea!

        • @[email protected]English
          4•11 months ago

          Personally I went for the globe display, because I figured that was a more globally applicable format.

      • @owsei
        10•11 months ago

        true

        however

        everything would be fluid in the layout and you would need to set what should go on top of what. And having this feature doesn’t seem worth the hassle of making if work, or even using it.

        Imagine trying to type in a ‘fluid’ keyboard

        TBH tho, seems like a cool gimmick for some apps.

      • @rambaroo
        2•11 months ago

        That’s called over-engineering for use cases that don’t and won’t exist. Please lecture us some more though.