RE: lock unlock aspect ratio, rotation, the future? [was Re: Good job guys!!]

["Maiorana, Jason" <jmaiorana idirect net>]

> I wish the gtk-win32 maintainers were bold enough to add a "render
rotated text"
> API function (which shouldn't be very hard to implement on Win32), and 
> implement it on X as a g_warning("FIXME: X sucks at rotating fonts").
Just
> to get the things in motion.

This should not be hard under gtk2, assuming the render/xft extensions
are
available. Those should also make transparency available much more
easily.

In fact, after a gtk2 transition, I think arbitrary transformation and 
translucency would be worthy goals. 

And if scaling is redone: dont forget units
for example if you want to make a small map diagram, being able to set
the scale
at e.g.( 3 real cm = 1 mile, 2 screen inch = 1 real cm ) would be very
good scaling
support.