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2011-02-23 , 12:27
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Originally Posted by freemangordon View Post
And what about user-managable blacklist, why it is not a safe option.
A whitelist is the only safe option for the CSSU to ship as default. I've explained why above. Having a blacklist for users who choose to enable forced rotation is perfectly sensible, however.

Whitelisting applications would not 'remind' developers to include portrait mode support in new versions of their apps, while if they run their own application and see that it is looking ugly in portrait may lead them to desicion to include portrait support. And for the others - user can always blacklist application.
Patches welcome to make forced rotation support a blacklist. However, your "remind developers to include portrait mode" also equates to "give users a broken experience in the mean time".

The CSSU will, out of the box, provide an improved experience. Not a retrograde one. If it includes experimental options, they will be enablable by users willing to risk it and suffer the side-effects.
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