I'd like to start a conversation about how best to present to the user how they can control rotation in various apps.

With the CSSU, rotation and portrait is becoming more and more common. Existing (open-source) Nokia apps are getting portrait mode programmed into them, and community apps are also being encouraged to add portrait mode.

But, there are some occasions when you don't want apps to rotate, and you want to lock them into landscape or portrait mode. At the moment, different apps present this option to the user in different ways. For example:

• SeriesFinale: Menu, Settings, Screen Rotation: Automatic, Portrait, Landscape
• gPodder: Menu, Settings, Display orientation: Automatic, Landscape, Portrait
• Nokia Phone app: Menu, Turning control, Display orientation: Portrait, Landscape, Automatic
• Microb: Menu, Options, Settings, Enable rotation tickbox
• Panucci: Menu: Automatic, Landscape, Portrait

It seems to me that it would be nice to be consistent, so that users could move between apps and still be able to quickly change rotation, without having to hunt through differently-named settings.

I don't know about anyone else, but I like it when the rotation control is easily and quickly accessible, so Panucci's method of having it directly in the menu is great, rather than having it hidden in a settings dialog. However, I realise that many apps cannot do that, as their menu is already crowded.