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[Daniel d'Andrada <daniel.dandrada@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

@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

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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.

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