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#1685
Originally Posted by Jaffa View Post
Indeed; and I think my opinion lies closer to yours; however, where does it stop? Personally, I think zaxisrotation is fantastic and - possibly in future - should be as widely used as possible. However, editing transitions.ini isn't a nice way of enabling that for such a beneficial feature. So people install the CSSU & a GUI settings editor - which is too complex (or, ultimately, we change the default. Muwahahaha)

Similarly with rotation lock: the CSSU can provide the capability (through a gconf key) to expose an orientation lock. But then it's not actually useful until someone installs the status area menu (note, this is proper orientation lock, not a forcerotation shortcut only for devs). So, now we're up to 3 packages for the "ideal Maemo" experience.

As you say, though, people might not be interested in rotation lock. For though, existing control panel settings applets are replaced or enriched; so you could have Display > Alternate orientation effect and Display > Show orientation lock.
Personally I think most of the transition changes in the CSSU are fantastic and have now activated most of them, it would therefore be a pity if end users missed out on them due to not having downloaded the GUI and so were not aware of them.

As I have already downloaded the GUI I personnally have no concerns about whether the GUI is included or not but if it is not we will need clear instructions on the changeblog informing the user they need to download the GUI to activate the transitions, we will also need to ensure the GUI is promoted to the right repo. as some end user will only use the repos which contain the tested/stable apps.