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[Olivier Tilloy <olivier.tilloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 10:00 AM, Michael Zanetti
<michael.zanetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> On 27.04.2016 09:37, Gareth France wrote:
>> This is on the M10, on my E4.5 tagger works beatifully.
>>
>> On 27 April 2016 at 08:34, Olivier Tilloy <olivier.tilloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> <mailto:olivier.tilloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>
>>     On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 10:22 PM, Gareth France
>>     <gareth.france@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:gareth.france@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>     > It seem that tagger is behaving weird, the image is displayed the
>>     wrong way
>>     > up making it near impossible to centre on what you want to scan as
>>     it always
>>     > moves the opposite way and messes with your mind!
>>     >
>>     > I haven't been able to scan a single code yet, it just doesn't
>>     pick them up.
>>     > It was very quck on my phone so this surprised me. Is this known?
>>     I'm not
>>     > sure wher to look for a bug.
>>
>>     You can look for existing bugs, and report a new one, here:
>>     https://bugs.launchpad.net/tagger.
>>
>>     On which device are you seeing this btw? I’ve tested the E4.5 and the
>>     MX4, and I’m not observing anything wrong.
>
>
> Actually this happens on all devices. Currently apps cannot distinguish
> between Landscape and InvertedLandscape (or Portrait and
> InvertedPortrait). I can not fix that in the app until the API in the
> platform is fixed.

OK, I’m seeing it now.
The obvious workaround is to hold the device in portrait/landscape
instead of inverted portrait/inverted landscape, right?