On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:36:29AM +0100, Thomas Otterbein wrote: > Hi all, > > > > I plan to have a toggling script for use in the desktop icon, instead of > > > a starter script. > > > > This is the sort of thing that might be useful to have on the illume top > > shelf. autototate on/off, and "rotate now" when auto is off. > > > > Rotation is useful with maps. It depends on what the region look like. > > Also, it is easier to but the phone down on the long edge in a car. > > I can see how autorotation would be a problem in a game. Pingus works > > in either orientation, but several guys walk of the cliffs while the > > screen repaints. > > > to my opinion the default auto-rotation software should have some signaling > mechanism that keeps it from doing it's job while a certain software is > active. You can experience this with the later versions of MPlayer. It tells > the Screensaver not to activate during movie playback. I figure the > screensaver > modules of Desktop-Manager must have appropriate interfaces to accomplish > that > behaviour.
Yes, I'm thinking of catching SIGUSR1 for that. Anything that wants to toggle it just pkill -USR1 omnewrotate in the near future. Rui -- Grudnuk demand sustenance! Today is Pungenday, the 13th day of Chaos in the YOLD 3175 + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...? _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
