Is there general guidance about how scopes will be displayed in landscape? Will the two column view be used in most cases?
I do realize I could just install the PPA and find out, but I thought the question/discussion might be generally useful for developers. :-) Ted On Mon, 2015-02-02 at 05:10 -0600, Kevin Gunn 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
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