Thread: portrait mode in N900 ?
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michou is offline michou
2010-05-04 , 07:47
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Originally Posted by lwa View Post
To all the people who want portrait mode, could you explain to me how it will work?

Honestly I dont know how people expect portrait mode to work... Any one notice how symbian^3 still has boxed in widgets... theres a reason for it, so they can easily move from landscape to portrait and keep the homescreen from becoming a jumbled mess..

With how Maemo5 homescreen works there will never be full portrait mode, nor would I want to sacrifice the awesome customisablity of widgets to get it...
I remember reading on an other thread here, someone suggesting that if you keep the 4 landscape homescreens the way they are and just add 4 new portrait homescreens you wouldn't have this problem with widgets and shortcuts.

So basically, when you rotate you are working with 4 new portrait homescreens which are empty the first time you rotate, and which can be filled with widgets, shortcuts, etc. just like now on a landscape homescreen. In total you would have 8 homescreens (4 landscape + 4 portrait).

I think this could be a working model, also for people who would like more homescreen space (and yes I know you can add up to 9 homescreens) this is ideal. And if you are really keen on having the same content in portrait and lanscape just add the same content to both modes, so simple.
 

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