Hello, I am the one who talks/asks Gerry about this feature.
My applications/games require a specific orientation : some require Landscape, others Portrait. So they need a way to request/lock this kind of configuration. The file ".desktop" would be really convenient to use (though it may not be dynamic as Michal said). If you make it an API, please note this is not specific to QtMir. My applications don't use QT at all. They are directly using MIR Client + OpenGL. Cheers, Sylvain -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to unity8 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1379777 Title: Allow applications to specify the orientations supported Status in Qt integration with the Mir display server: New Status in Ubuntu UI Toolkit: Triaged Status in Ubuntu UX bugs: New Status in “unity8” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Currently unity8 shell has a partial implementation of orientation support. It trusts applications to rotate their own contents, if they want to. The shell doesn't reposition the panel (at the top) though, so a landscape app still has a portrait panel on the side. For proper orientation support in the shell, shell needs to know if the application wants to rotate its contents or not. To animate correctly, we really need shell to be responsible for rotating the app surface, not the app itself. Therefore an application needs to tell shell what orientations it supports, so shell can respect its wishes. A hint in the desktop file may be sufficient. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qtmir/+bug/1379777/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
