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

From: Frantisek Dufka dufkaf at seznam.cz
Date: Fri Aug 21 15:37:14 EEST 2009
Alberto Garcia wrote:
  > 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?
> 

Not sure what Fremantle provides but in general there are more modes (90 
vs 270 degrees, 0 vs 180) which may be important to your application 
because of position of HW buttons or maybe camera input format (may be 
upside down) etc. You can't find this from screen resolution alone.
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