Thread: Help support Automatic Screen Rotation (Univeral Portrait support) for the N900
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2009-09-26 , 20:31
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#59
Originally Posted by nymajoak View Post
The location of the widgets are somehow stored by the OS. Could it be a start to have two separate location storages, one for portrait and one for landscape? After adding a widget and rotating the screen the first time, the user can move the new widget to suit also the other orientation.

This would mean the user has to configure the homescreen for both orientations and might be a bit annoying if a lot of widgets are added in one go, but at least when adding only one I don't think this would bug me as a user too much.
What IMNSHO is sexy about that idea is that I can have *8* home screens then (or maybe just 1 portrait mode home screen, which just sees the most important widgets).

Cons, from the top of my head:
* Width of widgets would be limited to 480 pixels, minus whatever padding is needed.
I guess only when you want to have the same widget available in portrait and landscape mode without starting it twice. Or have it resizable in a way that the width of the widget shrinks to the maximum available width in that orientation if it is smaller than the widget width.[/QUOTE]