Thread: Help support Automatic Screen Rotation (Univeral Portrait support) for the N900
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kanishou is offline kanishou
2009-09-26 , 21:31
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Originally Posted by range View Post
That by the way is an interesting question. Okay, the apps keep running, but do they get *all* which are emitted on dbus or elsewhere? Will they even see that the orientation of the device has changed? Or is the dashboard the only application which listens on dbus for those events at that time and then has to tell all applications that the orientation changed?
That shouldn't be a technical issue. You just have to decide when and how to do it, because it might take considerable time. And portrait thumbnails may not be very useful in landscape mode, for the aspect-ratio issue I mentioned above.