Hey kevin, Thanks for this. Probably address book is one of the apps that does not fit well on landscape, I will push the desktop changes soon.
About the shell rotation, have you guys thought about the up-side-dow use case? (For example android does not rotate the app or the shell up-side-down to avoid confusions since the user can get confuse and try to answer/make calls in the wrong position, and others problems that can cause. ) On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 8:10 AM, Kevin Gunn <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > You may recall some time back I sent out a call for testing on the "full > shell rotation" feature for Unity8. We are on the verge of landing this > feature in vivid. > > I also want to highlight to any application developers that along with this > change, applications will rotate in all orientations by default. We've > performed quite a bit of testing (~125) of the applications in our store and > for the most part, ~80% of the applications rotated and could be used with > no user experience problems. The remaining ~20% had what I would call less > than optimal experiences in the landscape orientation. To say another way, > these applications were built assuming a fixed portrait orientation of a > certain size. The most common example of this were an applications > containing a button located on the display in the portrait mode. The button > would then be located off the screen in landscape and the application did > not permit scrolling to allow the user to interact. As a solution, these > applications could either be fixed to portrait, or possibly improved to make > the application more usable in the landscape mode. For those interested in > seeing how their application behaves ahead of this feature landing, simply > follow the instruction at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity8/FullShellRotation > You may also see which applications we've tested via the link under the > "Applications Tested". > > It's important to note in all cases tested where the landscape orientation > was not ideal for the application, the phone could simply be reorientated > back to portrait with application following suit with no impact on the > user's application experience. This means that for this 20% of applications, > addressing rotation is strongly suggested for the user experience, but not > mandatory. > > We are asking application developers to add this orientation preference > today, if desired, ahead of this feature landing. We estimate landing in > about 2 to 3 weeks. There is no impact to applications by adding this > orientation preference ahead of shell rotation feature landing. To express a > preferred orientation with the new shell rotation feature, simply add either > of the following to the application's desktop file > X-Ubuntu-Supported-Orientations=landscape > or > X-Ubuntu-Supported-Orientations=portrait > > And of course, you can test the results of this change on the ppa in the > aforementioned wiki. > > If there is no orientation preference, no modification is needed and the > application will simply support all orientations. > > Hope this helps. > Questions welcome. > br,kg > > -- > 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
