i'm just responding to confirm that some apps also don't work correctly with omnewrotate installed mokoeightball is one of them; after installing omnewrotate and rebooting, shaking the phone does not work with mokoeightball apps like the ledclock (http://www.opkg.org/package_104.html) displays by default in landscape mode, but turning the phone to landscape makes the teks adapt itself and displays in normal mode
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
