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Marcelo,

I would love a portrait mode in Canola. A lot of my Canola usage is done while on the road, and this would make using it much easier. I'm not a big fan of flashing the kernel, so hopefully this is something that makes it into the core kernel.

Either way, if you have a working Canola Portrait mode, I may be flashing...

-hal

I would find this extremely useful as well. Portrait mode gets my vote.

I'm certainy quite interested in the concept.

In general, I love the canola interface and how it's been optimised for landscape view - particularly the album cover view and photo browsing... but, viewing lists of albums and folders etc could work really well in portrait.

The reason the iphone/itouch interface works so well is when you get to a menu that is better browsed by landscape view, you simply tilt the screen.

I Think I'd like to see a Canola theme optimised for portrait view... with all menus scrolling up and down (ablum covers and phots etc).

That said - there are many more features of Canola I would like to see first:
youtube plugin, carman plugin, maps plugin, other bugs fixed etc.

I think for the moment, add the portrait feature to the roadmap... but near the bottom of the list for me.

One more vote for Portrait mode.

+1

The Osmo PIM will be better in portrait too.

I'm mostly using Canola to play music. Don't care about youtube, videos or photos. Most important thing for me is selecting and playing songs. Portrait mode would greatly help with the song selection, not to mention, I think the ergonomics are much, much better operating in portrait mode!

+1 Would be totally awesome! Especially if it works for all Apps...

Definitely would love portrait mode. But, only if Nokia will modify the default kernel.

I don't want to imagine flashing the thing twice every time I screw it up... Too much flashing

Portrait mode would be most excellent.

More and more I am running Maemo Mapper with the maps oriented in portrait while using it as an in car navigator. It gives me more lead time and a better "look ahead". The only drawback is accessing other apps...
With Canola in portrait, this will take care of 98% of my "in car" tablet use.

Although I can see the utility of portrait mode canola, I have a couple of suggestions. First, fbreader (the ultimate portrait mode app) actually uses the portrait mode flip of what this video shows. The reason for this is the handy +/- rocker. Consider making this rotation the default mode for canola so I don't have to flip my whole N8x0 when I switch to canola from fbreader. Second, have canola effectively use that rocker, just like fbreader.