You have a point, Illegal Sophie. I would recommend you post an Android issue, saying "landscape should work when you rotate left or right", at http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/list
Yusuf Saib Android ·T· · ·Mobile· stick together The views, opinions and statements in this email are those of the author solely in their individual capacity, and do not necessarily represent those of T-Mobile USA, Inc. On Jul 31, 7:31 am, "nEx.Software" <[email protected]> wrote: > I am right-handed, and there are many times when I would rather rotate > the same way you propose... Specifically for playing games, since most > games controls (at least in my day) had the directional pad on the > left side, I'd prefer to have the trackball on the left side. > Developers can handle this in their own applications, but as far as > the entire system goes... this would have to be built into the core > framework. I think a lot of this is largely due to the fact that slide- > out keyboards, such as on the G1, generally open in the direction > where the current rotation is correct. > > On Jul 29, 2:26 pm, Sophie <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi developers, > > As I'm just an Android user, I might be illegally here. But I just > > found out that being left handed, I have a slight problem with my > > recently purchased HTC Magic. I have searched Market already, but > > could not find anything to help me. My problem is this: as I am left > > handed, I like to turn the phone to landscape orientation with the > > buttons to the left (turning it clockwise). As you will probably all > > know, this won't work. To get landscape you have to turn the phone > > counter clockwise. Would it be possible for one of you to develop > > something to enable left handed people to turn the phone to landscape > > like they would intuitively do, that is clockwise? > > Thanks! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
