Actually what I wrote on 2015-10-09 does NOT make sense. I wrote: "And then finally when switching to browser on a flat-down phone it suddenly orientates to portrait. And what is worse for the user is that the whole shell and therefore right edge switcher changes place making the whole system navigation more difficult."
What actually is true is that the Shell already is in portrait after the phone call and doesn't need to rotate to landscape since the landscape browser rotates to the same portrait orientation. What is really important to notice when considering these use cases is that apps have their orientation (some of them can be only in landscape or in portrait) and shell has its orientation. AND that the Shell orientation and the focused app orientation need to be the same. This is mainly due to the bottom edge swipe feature that belongs to apps. In order to avoid any collision between the shell edge gestures and the application's bottom edge swipe the orientation need to be in sync. What orientation UX spec states is: 1) Application orientation follows the device orientation as long as that orientation is supported by the application 2) Shell orientation follows always current application's orientation Now considering this again I would say that the way it works currently is the correct way. As a user I would be more annoyed if the shell rotated unexpected than if the app changed its orientation. At least the system's main navigational edges would remain the same. My conclusion would be to set this Invalid. Any other comments? -- 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/1500633 Title: orientation sensor "last vertical" seems to be remembered and applied Status in QtMir: Incomplete Status in Ubuntu UX: In Progress Status in qtmir package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Status in unity8 package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: latest rc-image 1. download and install machines vs machines 2. open machines vs machines 3. open browser, rotate to landscape 4. lay flat on table so that browser is still in landscape 5. switch back to machines vs machines with launcher 6. raise top of phone as to make the phone vertical in portrait, lay back down flat 7. switch to browser expected: browser would be in landscape actual: browser rotates To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qtmir/+bug/1500633/+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
