@Laurie This bug is about enabling apps to tell the shell what orientations it supports (through that desktop file parameter). The shell deciding when to rotate them.
What you want is the ability for an application to tell its current preferred orientation (at runtime), which overrides shell's decision on rotating an app (among its supported orientations) based on the device physical position etc. So this is a different topic and it's being tracked on https://bugs.launchpad.net/mir/+bug/1382209 -- 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: [Orientation] Allow applications to specify the orientations supported Status in QtMir: Fix Released Status in Ubuntu UX: Fix Released Status in unity8 package in Ubuntu: Fix Released 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. --------------------------------------- Desired UX As described above. Application should be able to tell the system its possible orientations so that the shell can handle the actual rotation accordingly. 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
