An application might want to be locked to portrait while showing the main menu, but allow rotating while displaying some certain content. For that, the entries in the .desktop file are too static and there needs to be an API that can change those attributes at runtime.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to qtubuntu in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1413121 Title: MainView is missing an API to lock to landscape Status in QtMir: Confirmed Status in qtubuntu: New Status in qtmir package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in qtubuntu package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in ubuntu-ui-toolkit package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: The MainView offers an api to lock the app to portrait. For games however, it's common to require landscape mode. This is not supported and causes most of the games to show a notice like "Please rotate the device" when in portrait mode which looks not very professional. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qtmir/+bug/1413121/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
