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 <brunogi...@gmail.com> wrote: >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 landscape only. Some >> may want to display a different UI in each orientation (like a >> calculator being 4 function in portrait and scientific in landscape). >> If there are multiple applications in the switcher list dragging from >> the right will drag across some in portrait and some in landscape, so >> you will have both on screen at the same time, at least partially. Do >> applications get their coordinate space remapped externally, so >> internally to the application it always thinks "up" is the same >> direction, or do applications get told to rotate themselves and have >> to figure out if they rotate by 90 or 270 degrees? What happens if >you >> continuously slowly rotate the device, does it continue to rotate or >> jump backwards when you go past 360 degrees? Is there animation >> effects for the transition between orientation states? Are we going >to >> support the mozilla html5 api extensions for orientation? >> >> https://wiki.mozilla.org/B2G/QA/WebAPI_Test_Plan/Screen_Orientation > >Using QML, we need to expose QScreen's orientation() method and >orientationChanged signal [1]. Note that there is also the concept of >content orientation in QWindow [2] which may or may not be useful. I >suspect Qt::QScreenOrientation is an enum that should have a simple >mapping to the Mozilla mozOrientation so supporting that API extension >sounds reasonable. > >> >> What happens when an application that wants to always be portrait >ends >> up on a TV? > >Side-stage it? > >Bruno > >[1] http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5.0/qtgui/qscreen.html >[2] http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5.0/qtgui/qwindow.html > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >-- >Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone >Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net >Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone >More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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