> On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 17:22:27 +0000 Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <[email protected]> > said: > >> On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 04:40:04PM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: >> > Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: >> > > On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 01:55:29PM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: >> > [...] >> > >> The software that control rotation need to know if the foreground app >> > >> should run in landscape, portrait or auto mode. (And perhaps the >> > >> upside-down variants as well.) >> > > >> > > Or, what I think would be the proper way to do it, the application should >> > > broadcast to dbus that it prefers no rotation, or one of the 4 possible >> > > rotation states and omnewrotate could listen to such requests and >> > > not rotate while there is such a message in the bus. >> > > >> > Well, you cannot expect every app to have such preferences, this device >> > runs generic linux apps that aren't made specially for the freerunner. >> > Now, of course the app loader can do this, similiar to how we already >> > request the cpu/backlight when launching some apps. >> > >> > But there is a problem. The user may switch between several apps with >> > different rotation needs. (xmahjongg needs landscape, tetris needs >> > portrait, ...) How will omnewrotate be notified about this? >> >> The proper way is to define a set of DBUS signals. >> >> Of course conflicting signals need to be ignored. > > no. the proper way is to set properties on your window. this is a display > system thing. dbus is orthogonal to it. you set properties. you let the wm > figure out what to do with the active window(s) based on their properties.
Which window property, a 'no resize' flag? Is the property stored by X, the window manager, or something else? Is the code that does the rotations in the window manager? _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
