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[Ted Gould <ted@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Is there general guidance about how scopes will be displayed in
landscape? Will the two column view be used in most cases?

I do realize I could just install the PPA and find out, but I thought
the question/discussion might be generally useful for developers. :-)

Ted

On Mon, 2015-02-02 at 05:10 -0600, Kevin Gunn 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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