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#25
Originally Posted by Addison View Post
Sorry for using the word "sexy".
Hey, you needn't apologize to me! Your view of Diablo bugs is between you & your wife as far as I'm concerned.

Anyway re: the OP, yes, the SSU apparently only installs support for screen rotation, presumably making the wiki doc obsolete. You still need to install a program to actually do the rotation.

As an aside, I installed Advanced Backlight b/c that has buttons for orientation, and I must say I'm underwhelmed. First of all, Advanced Backlight itself seems to fight with the Nokia volume control in the status bar. Among other oddities, if I hit mute on the Nokia volume control, it mutes, but then it drops the volume to zero and unmutes! If I just use Advanced Backlight to control the volume, then it's fine, but I wish I could then disable the Nokia volume control. Second of all, not only do many apps not seem to handle the portrait mode that well, the Maemo desktop itself does handle it well. The app menu gets cut off and the status bar covers up the "Home" menu. Now I see why Nokia didn't want to release the patch themselves -- they're obviously not "officially" supporting portrait mode & they don't want to be held accountable as such. But it's still nice to have the option.
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