ok... so.. how do i put this, i am bit tired right now..
I am for vertical alignment when counting the crop of image area.. lets say, icons are 40px squared.
For example: I am using display 1920x1200. (like vast majority of peoples IMO)
If you crop 40px horizontaly, you crop out like 3,33% of whole whole area.
if you crop 40px verticaly, you crop out like 2,08% of whole whole area.
both of them have their pros and cons:
H:
- takes bigger area
+ you can have description showed
+ you may add lots of addtional icons without description
- addtional icons with description would go "off the screen"
- collapable description is pretty unusefull with lots of icons.
V:
+ less area
- description takes much more space
+ you may add lots of additional rows
+ collapsable description
tomorow i will revise these ideas..