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

[From: Alberto Garcia]

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 10:59:32AM +0200, Cornelius Hald wrote:

> > 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.

You don't need anything new to detect orientation changes, screen size
of window size. There's already standard GTK+ API for that.

> 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 really can't see the problem :-?

Landscape is by definition when width > height, and portrait when
width < height

Maybe I'm overlooking something, but why would you need any new
API? And how would you expect that API to work?

> I think the bottom line is just that it´s very poorly documented

Well, that might be true, but hopefully the documentation can be
improved once the device is released, which is something that we
can't do with the code :) that's why we're putting more effort in the
latter.

Berto