Re: When we will start writing in vertical position :(
 

Theirs no good reason you can't have it "your way." Here's my first attempt at a portrait mode conversation UI. I had to rework a bunch of stuff from my landscape version, but all for the better. Going back and forth from landscape to portrait isn't trivial, but with list-type apps, it's not unreasonable. Next, I'm gonna try to throw up a working half-screen keyboard; I should have something to show over the next few days.

As I've mentioned elsewhere, I'm just messin' around, but I think the point is clear.

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Re: When we will start writing in vertical position :(
 

you're my new personal hero...

shame on Nokia...

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Also my new personal hero!

Re: When we will start writing in vertical position :(
 

Some of you might recognize the keyboard from your fruit products. The Send button should actually be a Return button for multi-line texting, but I lifted the wrong snapshot.

Now for the more painful part: Going back and forth between landscape and portrait.

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Wonderfull!!! My hero again!!

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Handwriting or a T9 board would be nice too in portrait mode...

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Any guide on how you did this?

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The stuff I've posted here is sort of a run on sentence from my posts in the Meego: Goodbye Mozilla, hello Webkit?. I was just about to post some code over there when I ran into this thread. Until this thread, I hadn't given any thought to portrait mode. Long story short, I'm continuing to suffer from feature-creep-itous, but I plan on posting code sometime over the next few weeks. So the answer to your question is, "not currently."

I consider the hacking I'm doing no more than a tutorial extension for Maemo 5 GTK development. As I mention in the other thread, after I post code, my hope is that someone will be able to run with some of this stuff. But more importantly, my message is that I think it's silly where Nokia chooses to draw some of their proprietary lines. It hasn't taken me long to do this proof-of-concept front end work, so I still don't know if I get their point. They seem to be spread thin; the community could have supplied plenty of more integrated functionality by now if the 20% closed source was more like 3%. Please don't quote me on those numbers. Rant over.

Re: When we will start writing in vertical position :(
 

I do this with my X61 all the time. Further, I rotate one of the large desktop displays when I'm working on portrait-mode content.

Not supporting display rotation is merely laziness and poor software design.

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Nope, nothing to do with Nokia, the research was to do with iPhone application development for a client system..