For iteration 1, the SDK team team agreed that setting the supported orientation in a desktop file hint is sufficient. Should we need more granularity, we can create an API for applications to set it themselves. But the lack of an existing API in Qt's QScreen class means that API would be custom to the UITK.
Awaiting UX decision -- 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/1379777 Title: [Dash] Allow applications to specify the orientations supported Status in Qt integration with the Mir display server: New Status in Ubuntu UI Toolkit: Triaged Status in Ubuntu UX bugs: Triaged Status in “unity8” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Currently unity8 shell has a partial implementation of orientation support. It trusts applications to rotate their own contents, if they want to. The shell doesn't reposition the panel (at the top) though, so a landscape app still has a portrait panel on the side. For proper orientation support in the shell, shell needs to know if the application wants to rotate its contents or not. To animate correctly, we really need shell to be responsible for rotating the app surface, not the app itself. Therefore an application needs to tell shell what orientations it supports, so shell can respect its wishes. A hint in the desktop file may be sufficient. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qtmir/+bug/1379777/+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
