I've been testing the Unity8 on Nexus 7 this week and I could easily imagine using that in windowed mode with a mouse and a keyboard. So I think it's a valid use case to have possibility to use windowed mode on smaller devices. Where the limit goes is another question.
How about if we would simply ignore the .desktop file restriction in windowed mode? Is there a use case when we would want to alter between portrait and landscape based on the focused app in windowed mode? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to unity8 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1515977 Title: Shell rotates inappropriately in windowed mode Status in canonical-pocket-desktop: New Status in Ubuntu UX: Triaged Status in unity8 package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Install latest rc proposed on a nexus 4. Attach a bluetooth mouse - this triggers windowed mode. Orient device in landscape Open weather app - which is locked portrait in the .desktop file Shell rotates to become portrait and there's no way to get it out of that mode easily. The shell should probably ignore the .desktop setting which says that an app is portrait only if it's windowed. ------------- Ubuntu UX Input Request ------- Does it make sense for Unity to go into Windowed (aka Desktop) mode on such a small screen as the Nexus 4? It does make sense of course to show a mouse pointer and not display a virtual keyboard in response to the availability of those input devices. But what about going into windowed (aka Desktop) mode as well? To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/canonical-pocket-desktop/+bug/1515977/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
