Hi Guys,

"... Basically the article is saying that Canola's theme engine works well enough to know when it's running in portrait mode or not and displays perfectly either way...
So there's nothing to be released other than xrandr.
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Yah, actually xrandr is on vivi's website and already on xomap, the thing missing for chinook is the kernel with the patch (if I'm not mistaken)

Terrencegf : if you look at the link you sent, it's Rodrigos (Vivi)'s patch compiled to the maemo (http://labs.vivi.eng.br/blog/?p=39) ... so is not only compiling, there was some work to be done, and it was done in xomap, by other team here in the company, requested by my team (Concepts). I have all the packages needed (need to flash the kernel) and a .deb with the port of xrandr... but... this of course can be used for those dying to test canola (which I don't suggest) because some of the screens are not usable but to play around the link fits quite well... just do as he says, and you can rotate via the applet canola doesn't need to be restarted, it rotates automaticaly.


the question was more about : do people really want this (I know some people reallly want, but I will only be able to get more workforce to finish this work if a lot of users are instered).

BUT @amigokin: this was not made to be portrait. It was designed to work perfectly in landscape and also there's work to be done on the 3-album view screen, the player screen (for video, photo and music) and small tweaks around. also more items on the screen makes it slower, so a theme with less transparency is also needed. Last, but not less important is also : You should be able to do this inside canola, and video should be able to rotate back to play correctly, as video on this orientation sucks hard

The thing is, some of the screens (players - thumbnails) were made to optimize the use on landscape, while others were made to be orientation independent , and we are happy that no we can see it

Again, it's more about you guys, and as "user centered" advocates, it's your feedback the guides most of the decisions (sometimes not ))) )

BR