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[Renato Filho <renato.filho@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey kevin,

Thanks for this. Probably address book is one of the apps that does
not fit well on landscape, I will push the desktop changes soon.

About the shell rotation, have you guys thought about the up-side-dow
use case? (For example android does not rotate the app or the shell
up-side-down to avoid confusions since the user can get confuse and
try to answer/make calls in the wrong position, and others problems
that can cause. )

On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 8:10 AM, Kevin Gunn <kevin.gunn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
>
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