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[Laurie Bradshaw <1379777@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Seems mir has the necessary support with
mir_surface_set_preferred_orientation, which confusingly doesn't do
anything at the moment, as the shell isn't honouring it.

I'm currently providing orientation support in neverball and tuxracer by
rotating the whole scene and touch input to the user preference, and
locking to an arbitrary orientation using the desktop file parameter to
prevent automatic rotation interfering with the gameplay.

It'd be much better if the mir surface flag was honoured so the panel
and gesture edges would also be rotated in order to maintain consistency
with other applications.

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Title:
  [Orientation] Allow applications to specify the orientations supported

Status in QtMir:
  In Progress
Status in Ubuntu UX:
  Triaged
Status in ubuntu-ui-toolkit package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in unity8 package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

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.

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