Henrik Hedberg wrote:
> Murray Cumming wrote:
>> On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 13:20 +0200, Alberto Garcia wrote:
>>> To detect screen orientation changes you can e.g. use the
>>> "size-changed" signal of GdkScreen.
>> This seems like a rather long-winded way to detect landscape or portrait
>> mode, requiring the hard coding of the dimensions.
>
> if (width > height) {
> /* landscape */
> } else if (width < height) {
> /* portrait */
> } else {
> /* square :) */
> }
>
> However, usually developer should not need to know mode but Hildon
> widgets should adjust themselves as much as possible during the
> relayout. Unfortunately that seems not to be the case, as Conny
> demonstrated earlier with some screenshots.
Mmm... what could possibly go wrong ... eg when we look at maemo on a slightly
squarer device with a different windowmanager layout.
Surely
XRRScreenChangeNotifyEvent
should be supported since this actually provides 'orientation' which is what IU
the UI guidelines suggest working to.
Maybe even abstracted to a high level 'RandRChanged' signal?
David
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"Don't worry, you'll be fine; I saw it work in a cartoon once..."
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