[reaperducer]

You assume that everyone has their monitors the way you do.

At work, I have two large 16:9 monitors rotated in portrait orientation (tall), so this would be useful to me.

Currently macOS only allows 90-degree rotation increments. This allows you to have your monitor in portrait orientation, or mounted from the ceiling or a shelf, hanging upside down so there's nothing taking up space on the desk in front of you.

I've been in a couple of events in the field where having arbitrary application window rotation would have been nice because there was no place flat to put the monitors.

[fiddlerwoaroof]

I suspect this is to show off the compositing GUI: I recall this sort of things in screenshots of compiz/beryl when compositing window managers were new to Linux.

[GordonS]

> At work, I have two large 16:9 monitors rotated in portrait orientation (tall), so this would be useful to me.

OK... but at 45 degrees?

[viraptor]

To easily change timezone on an analog display clock? ;-)

[reaperducer]

I've been in a couple of events in the field where having arbitrary application window rotation would have been nice because there was no place flat to put the monitors.

[scrumper]

Non-desk applications: vehicle, industrial, marine.

[tejtm]

oooooh, stays steady with the boat pitching/rolling

[omeid2]

You don't want that. With the boat pitching and rolling, so does the people on board looking at the instruments, so having the instrument tilt would be rather disorienting! as if sailing by itself isn't disorienting enough. ;)

[scrumper]

Yes! I meant more, you have awkward spaces to fill and it may be convenient to mount a panel at some odd angle but still have it display things aligned with the floor.

[nolok]

> Currently macOS only allows 90-degree rotation increments.

Windows has supported landscape/portrait switching since forever, I think it was already there in windows XP almost two decades ago, if not it was in 7 for sure (and it's in 10 since I use it right now).

[aeontech]

Landscape-portrait switch _is_ 90-degree. Parent poster is pointing out that this OS supports finer grained orientation rotations.

[DHowett]

True though this may be, the quoted parent did not say "only macOS allows". They're asserting that on macOS, the only available options are in 90-degree increments.

[reificator]

> > Currently macOS only allows 90-degree rotation increments.

> Windows has supported landscape/portrait switching since forever, I think it was already there in windows XP almost two decades ago, if not it was in 7 for sure (and it's in 10 since I use it right now).

Allowing portrait is exactly what 90 degree rotation means.

[reaperducer]

Windows has supported landscape/portrait switching since forever, I think it was already there in windows XP almost two decades ago, if not it was in 7 for sure (and it's in 10 since I use it right now).

I wasn't trying to make a comparison to Windows, or start an OS war. I'm not sure why you even brought up Windows, since this discussion is about HelenOS.

But for what it's worth, Macs have supported portrait mode since 1989†, back when Microsoft was still pushing Windows 2.

† https://everymac.com/monitors/apple/classic_monitors/specs/a...

[nolok]

My bad, for some reason I read "only macOS" instead of "macOS only"