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[Olivier Tilloy <olivier.tilloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 1:06 AM, Mitchell Reese
<projects@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 10/10/14 22:51, Olivier Tilloy wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Mitchell Reese
>> <projects@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 07/10/14 08:44, Olivier Tilloy wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 11:24 PM, Mitchell Reese
>>>> <projects@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 1. Is there any way currently for webapps to be fullscreen when in
>>>>>>>       landscape mode? I'm talking about the notification bar
>>>>>>> disappearing
>>>>>>>       when rotating the device on it's side. There are already a
>>>>>>> couple
>>>>>>>       apps that do this (gallery, etc.) and it would be great to have
>>>>>>> this
>>>>>>>       functionality for webapps. Working on a couple games, and
>>>>>>> something
>>>>>>>       just doesn't look right with the notification bar wrong way up
>>>>>>> on
>>>>>>>       the left hand side of the device. It would be great if apps
>>>>>>> being
>>>>>>>       used in landscape mode had this functionality. Is anything like
>>>>>>> this
>>>>>>>       currently possible, or planned?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Webapps (and web pages) that request fullscreen should hide the
>>>>>> notifications bar. This was not enabled until now because of bug
>>>>>> #1328839, but the bug has been fixed, and I submitted a change to
>>>>>> reflect that in the browser and the webapps container
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> (https://code.launchpad.net/~osomon/webbrowser-app/fullscreen-workaround-1328839/+merge/237234).
>>>>>> Expect this to land soon.
>>>>>
>>>>> Great, am currently on the dev image for the RTM release, so will
>>>>> hopefully
>>>>> see this soon. What's the code to enable this in webapps?
>>>>
>>>> Use the DOM fullscreen API in the app itself:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/API/DOM/Using_full_screen_mode.
>>>
>>> Trying this now, and am a bit lost. Am I using this code with the
>>> webapp-container itself, or in the webapps being created in the sdk? No
>>> obvious options for where to use this, so I'm missing something entirely.
>>> Has this been implemented on a basic level within the webapp template
>>> files
>>> in the sdk (i.e., can I add an option to one of the obvious files), or do
>>> I
>>> need to add this code to the webapp-container itself?
>>
>> The DOM fullscreen API applies to the webapp itself, i.e. the app has
>> to request fullscreen from JS code. If you don’t control the code of
>> the webapp but still want to make it fullscreen, this is not an
>> option.
>>
>> The webapp-container has a '--fullscreen' command-line switch that
>> would do the trick, if it wasn’t broken (tracked by
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/webbrowser-app/+bug/1379766).
>
> Have added to this bug - would be great to see it fixed. For now, have added
> this tag to my application for when it gets fixed. Affects the polished look
> of Ubuntu webapps, but not functionality. What /would/ be awesome is buit-in
> functionality where rotating the device to landscape causes the app to
> become fullscreen, and rotating it back to portrait shows the notification
> bar.

I don’t think there’s anything like that planned, but feel free to
file a bug to request it, and we’ll consider it.


> Also, is there any functionality planned to make it easy to change the
> time-out of the screen? Not sure if it's in the design time-line, but love
> the idea of apps being able to say whether they want the screen to time-out.
> Thinking specifically of the ABC 4 Kids webapp I just published - fine for
> games when the kids are interacting with the screen, but when watching a
> video the screen times out after a minute (my default settings). I can of
> course change this in the phone settings, but would be nice for the app to
> have an option for this.

That’s https://launchpad.net/bugs/1375195 : playing back a video in a
webapp should inhibit screen blanking, apps shouldn’t have to do
anything to request it.