#3 Free-rotating CD covers

Some people have asked to be able to rotate CD covers by
arbitrary angles, to make them look even more cluttered.

[Freek Dijkstra]

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I guess there are two solutions to do this. Either, just rotate the image,
and keep the window square or adjust the window region. I read
somewhere that there is a way in cocoa to simply override a method (in
NSWindow?) to return a different shape (region) of window. However, I
couldn't find it and I may be misinformed.

A second approach is just to rotate the whole window, including
everything! Normally, this would also rotate the titlebar, but there is
none. For details, have a look at
http://www.atzenbeck.de/research/wildWindows/ (got some great
screenshots and nice sample code) and http://
homepage.cs.latrobe.edu.au/wjtregaskis/
However, I recommend the first approach if possible, since the latter
uses undocumented features, and may not be as reliable.

[Anonymous]

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I'm told that transforming the window itself puts extra load on the
window server, because it has to run the window's pixels through the
transform whenever it has to draw it.
Rotating just the image wouldn't be hard -- you just have to make the
window a bit larger, and transparent. I believe the window server will
automatically do the right hit-testing.

[Patrick Lemmens]

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This would be very very cool. Consider a option to just trow your cd's in
(pseudo) random order and orientation on the desktop as if scattered on
the floor.