[maemo-developers] Howto enable portrait mode support on Fremantle

[From: Cornelius Hald]

Vlad Vasiliev wrote:
> I couldn't find the attribute, like "Support rotation" in the current 
> HildonWindow.

http://maemo.org/api_refs/5.0/beta/hildon/hildon-Additions-to-GTK+.html#HildonPortraitFlags

> And I think that the use of signal "size-changed" is not the right 
> way.(IMHO)
> You will need control real value size of window.  You will need  control 
> changing to full screen and revert in window and in  next Maemo devices  
> size of screen may be large or small.

Yes, there have been many discussions about that already. The result of 
this discussion was that there is not a single correct way of doing this.
I´m assuming the following: width > height => landscape and height > 
width => portrait. Of course this does not work if you have a square 
screen ;) Well, I´m not super happy with it, but inside scratchbox using 
xrandr to rotate the screen it works.

I think the bottom line is just that it´s very poorly documented and 
that it would be nice to have some explicit API for dealing with that. 
Or at least a "official" code sample / tutorial / best practice...

Cheers!
Conny