Thread: Can community developers provide portrait mode solution?
View Single Post
Laughing Man is offline Laughing Man
2010-03-12 , 14:35
Posts: 4,556 | Thanked: 1,624 times | Joined on Dec 2007
#3
Originally Posted by byte_76 View Post
We already know that Nokia is not going to provide full portrait mode for N900 in future updates for Fremantle.

Are there any developers or hackers that could create a package that can enable a working portrait mode with an app to select how the portrait mode works (ie. rotates automatically or has a button to switch etc.)?

I understand that there are problems with the resizing desktops and widgets and the status bar etc. but it must be possible to fix the problems.

I'm sure that there are many users on tmo that would really appreciate the effort, myself included.
I know for the n800/n810 there was xrandr. I believe in extras-devel there is a similar package that rotates the screen into whatever orientation you want. 90, 180, 270, back to regular. But it doesn't change the GUI as in anything that's too long like the desktop will simply not be shown (e.g. it appears chopped off).

But for most 3rd party apps, developers are willing to add portrait mode in their own application if asked nicely (if they haven't already done so).
__________________
Originally Posted by ysss View Post
They're maemo and MeeGo...

"Meamo!" sounds like what Zorro would say to catherine zeta jones... after she slaps him for looking at her dirtily...
Last edited by Laughing Man; 2010-03-12 at 14:46.