Benson,
its hand written notes, of course they support rotation, just hold your tablet the other way round
Its a matter of will for me to support unrotation of sketches later.

Of course, that doesn't deal with the rest of the ui, but if I manage to get what I've been trying to write all afternoon in place even that won't be an issue.

if this is requested I'll add it, but no1 has really pushed it so far

Thats very interesting you noting the the internet calling app handles rotation - are you sure its using the XV overlay and not just native x11 (or gdk pixbuf)?
I can't test anymore because I'm back on a stock kernel.

I could not get liqbase or mplayer to stretch across the full display, it always crashed when attempting to update over 480*480.
http://liqbase.net/liqbase_rotate_480x480.jpg