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[Michael Zanetti <michael.zanetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 27.04.2016 10:06, Olivier Tilloy wrote:
> 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?
> 

Yes. Although I really don't like that workaround :) However, the fix
for this is not straight forward. It's something to be fixed in Qt and
also requires to rework a "hack" that got introduced for the camera-app
in qtubuntu.

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