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[Mitchell Reese <dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Love it - very excited this feature is coming. I've noticed for some 
time multiple conflicts with app's bottom edges, sides, etc., and the 
Unity Shell when rotated - glad this is in the works.

Have tested on my Nexus 7, and yes, very rough right now. I'll submit to 
your docs shortly. Having updated to the next dev version with the ppa 
enabled (yep, could have seen that one coming...) has given me a device 
that boots, but no screen. Will try disabling the ppa and rolling back 
the update - I can always wipe and restore my data if needed.

Anyway, the question I have is about updates - for testing purposes on 
the Nexus 7, should I avoid updating the device when using this ppa? 
Also, I'm aware this is a testing repository and will change, how long 
will this project be using this ppa? Haven't tried it on my mako device, 
I'm assuming this is for vivid only? Is this rotation likely to be 
backported to 14.09?

Thanks,

Mitchell

p.s. Just updated through apt-get, and screen is back, however the apps 
don't turn.
On 22/11/14 02:50, Kevin Gunn wrote:
> Hi all,
> First, thank you for considering to participate in this testing. Your
> effort helps us find issues to fix & gain the confidence we need to
> land this feature.
>
> Background...
> Recently the Unity UI team has put in effort around "full shell
> rotation". This is the feature where the shell follows the application
> orientations. You might have noticed the indicator panel stays put
> when the messaging application moves from portrait to landscape on the
> phone, this "fixes" that. Likewise, when an application is fixed to a
> position out of preference, the shell will also remain in the
> applications preferred orientation.
>
> In order to deliver this feature we had to break applications
> expression of orientation. Which drove us to discuss with our
> Canonical stakeholders in the SDK team, Design team, and Community
> applcations whether or not applications should have to express
> rotation support (opt-in) or rotate all applications by default,
> unless they specify their orientations (opt-out). We collectively
> decided it's best to have an opt-out approach. We've included this
> change into this ppa for testing. So it's a great opportunity for
> application developers to update their applications and test ahead of
> our landing.
>
> the plan....
> Everything you need to know is here
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity8/FullShellRotation
>
> I will ask for a little grace on this as I feel I may have pushed this
> out a bit early. The feature is working on phone but there are
> definitely issues on unity8-desktop & tablets that would prevent us
> from landing. However I felt like making this call for testing now was
> important to start getting feedback and ready folks for the idea of
> opt-out application rotation. That being said we'll probably keep this
> call for testing open a bit longer than one might expect to both get
> comfortable & confident with the change, as well as make the final bug
> fixes/polish needed to get it landed.
>
> If you have any questions, let me know.
> Thanks for testing!
> br,kg