Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [design] rotation

2013-02-26 Thread Brion Vibber
On Feb 26, 2013 1:17 AM, "Lars Knudsen" wrote: > > What happens when an iPad/iPhone is connected to a tv and the iPhone is in portrait mode (or via the wifi to an appletv)? I am not saying that Apple always has the answer, but they usually have pretty good solutions to these things. > The iPad o

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [design] rotation

2013-02-26 Thread Christina Li
Hi all, I think I can answer a couple of your questions around orientation; yes we will support orientation and there'll be an API for that as Nathan said. In terms of supporting orientation from now on, there are some things to remember.* Phone stages (default phone + tablet side stage)* 1.

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [design] rotation

2013-02-26 Thread Octavian Damiean
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 12:05 PM, jayw...@basshero.org wrote: > Personally as a user I would find it very annoying if all applications > that do rotate didn't auto-rotate by default ;) Of course if there is the > availability to set this in settings it is ok but for default behaviour > personally

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [design] rotation

2013-02-26 Thread jayw...@basshero.org
Personally as a user I would find it very annoying if all applications that do rotate didn't auto-rotate by default ;) Of course if there is the availability to set this in settings it is ok but for default behaviour personally I expect when trying out a new phone for apps to autorotate (when avail

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [design] rotation

2013-02-26 Thread Lena Zvereva
To me, it seems better to have all apps locked on the preferred orientation. And as for games - true, it's not possible for plenty of them to work in portrait On 2/26/2013 1:51 PM, Alan Bell wrote: On 26/02/13 09:45, Lena Zvereva wrote: Hi all, i'm curious if all users do find not having ro

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [design] rotation

2013-02-26 Thread Alan Bell
On 26/02/13 09:45, Lena Zvereva wrote: Hi all, i'm curious if all users do find not having rotation for some devices to be handy. Personally i dislike my being able to use e.g. Skype only in landscape mode on a tablet. The point is, what if you switch between a bunch of apps - you have to ro

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [design] rotation

2013-02-26 Thread Lena Zvereva
On 2/26/2013 1:11 PM, Alan Bell wrote: On 25/02/13 23:54, Frank Mertens wrote: Just my 2 cents: Lack of autorotation can also be seen as a feature. Supporting rotations everywhere can be very confusing, forcing the user to hold the device in a certain angle towards gravity just to get the expect

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [design] rotation

2013-02-26 Thread Lars Knudsen
What happens when an iPad/iPhone is connected to a tv and the iPhone is in portrait mode (or via the wifi to an appletv)? I am not saying that Apple always has the answer, but they usually have pretty good solutions to these things. (this also goes for the multi-screen games, etc.) - Lars On

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [design] rotation

2013-02-26 Thread Nathan Haines
On 02/26/2013 01:11 AM, Alan Bell wrote: yes, if the design goal is to not have rotation then that is fine, ... If is is being designed out of the platform (you can't rotate a TV easily) then this really should be stated and sold as a feature. Absolutely! But it has already been stated that ro

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [design] rotation

2013-02-26 Thread Alan Bell
On 25/02/13 23:54, Frank Mertens wrote: Just my 2 cents: Lack of autorotation can also be seen as a feature. Supporting rotations everywhere can be very confusing, forcing the user to hold the device in a certain angle towards gravity just to get the expected layout. And btw. the photo app alread

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [design] rotation

2013-02-25 Thread Frank Mertens
Just my 2 cents: Lack of autorotation can also be seen as a feature. Supporting rotations everywhere can be very confusing, forcing the user to hold the device in a certain angle towards gravity just to get the expected layout. And btw. the photo app already supports autorotation and in this partic

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [design] rotation

2013-02-25 Thread Daniel Clem
Agreed, side stage would look farely natural I think. Just need to translate all those gestures to a remote's controls. Plus side stage on a TV would make video calling and other things while multi tasking very intuitive and fun. Bruno Girin wrote: >On 25/02/13 13:01, Alan Bell wrote: >> At th

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [design] rotation

2013-02-25 Thread Bruno Girin
On 25/02/13 13:01, Alan Bell wrote: > At the moment the devices don't support rotation. I don't think > rotation is the same thing as a window changing size and aspect ratio, > I think there is a bit more to it than that. Some applications will > want to be portrait only, some will want to be lands