The point about the video player supporting rotation did not answer my question, but your statement about the shell NOT supporting rotation did. Perhaps my question was worded poorly; I was asking whether or not the shell supported rotation yet, and now I know that it doesn't. Since Ubuntu Touch for phones is supposed to be in a usable state by the end of this month, it would be nice to have some idea when the shell will support rotation.
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Pat McGowan <[email protected]>wrote: > On 05/08/2013 07:27 PM, Nicolas Cook Leon wrote: > > It seems that Ubuntu Touch isn't locked. It looks like certain screens > just don't support the other orientation. Running it on my Nexus 7 has > practically everything portrait-only, so I thought it was locked until I > tried the video player, which supports both orientations. That makes me > think you'll need to build it into your own applications for now, at least. > > This was postedearlier in the thread, does it answer your question? The > shell itself is not yet supporting rotation. > > > And to make the apps developers lives easier the Ubuntu UI Toolkit has > added a simple way to enable automatic rotation of an app depending on the > orientation of the device. If you are using MainView then simply set the > 'automaticOrientation' property to true: > > > http://developer.ubuntu.com/api/ubuntu-12.10/qml/mobile/qml-ubuntu-components0-mainview.html#automaticOrientation-prop > > Just make sure that your app layout responds well to size changes and it > is likely that it will also respond well to orientation changes (changing > the orientation is equivalent to changing the aspect ratio of the app > window, width becomes the height and height becomes the width). > > Florian > > > > On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 1:37 PM, John Nelson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> That's exactly why there needs to be an option to lock rotation for an >> e-reader. >> >> My other question remains unanswered: does Ubuntu Touch support rotation >> yet? I'd like to know because I'm maintaining the device-specific part for >> the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0, and right now it's hard-coded to be locked >> into landscape mode, because the early port was locked in portrait mode. >> I'd prefer not having to hard-code the orientation if I don't have to. >> On May 8, 2013 9:52 AM, "Rasmus Eneman" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> When you lie down it needs to be locked. And yeah, it should be an >>> option (that is simple to change, ie. on the toolbar) >>> >>> >>> 2013/5/8 Joey Jiao <[email protected]> >>> >>>> hey, why lock for ereader? at least keep an option for the user to >>>> select if orient >>>> 在 2013-4-30 上午7:55，"John Nelson" <[email protected]> 写道： >>>> >>>> I have another follow-up question. For some apps (e.g., an e-reader, >>>>> once we get one), it would be useful to have the ability to lock the >>>>> orientation. Will that functionality be built into the SDK? >>>>> >>>>> Also, does anyone have any idea when Ubuntu Touch will be able to >>>>> respond to the orientation of the device? The device-specific part of the >>>>> build I use (for a Samsung Galaxy 2 7.0 tablet) is hard-coded for >>>>> landscape >>>>> mode. Is that still a necessary hack? >>>>> On Apr 29, 2013 7:42 PM, "Sergio Schvezov" < >>>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 01:33:34AM +0200, Nekhelesh Ramananthan wrote: >>>>>> > Hi Florian, >>>>>> > >>>>>> > Thanks for that. However on interchanging the width and height to >>>>>> simulate >>>>>> > the landscape orientation, I noticed that the core apps like >>>>>> Weather, >>>>>> > Clock, Calculator etc do not adapt well to the new orientation. Is >>>>>> there >>>>>> > sample code we core app developers could look at to get an idea on >>>>>> how to >>>>>> > make our app respond well to different orientations? >>>>>> >>>>>> I actually have a followup question, how are sidestige apps affected >>>>>> with >>>>>> orientation changes? >>>>>> >>>>>> Cheers >>>>>> Sergio >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone >>>>>> Post to : [email protected] >>>>>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone >>>>>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone >>>>> Post to : [email protected] >>>>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone >>>>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>>>> >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone >>>> Post to : [email protected] >>>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone >>>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Rasmus Eneman >>> >> >> -- >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> > > > >
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