Comments on: Team Work : Canola2 portrait test

By: Rodrigo Vivi - vivijim » Vertical Canola

Rodrigo Vivi - vivijim » Vertical Canola — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 05:42:57 +0000

[...] has recently posted a Canola portrait test video on his [...]

By: handful

handful — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:54:05 +0000

@eduard : yes, I do that on the video, but it was cut. I am in canola in landscape mode, go to xterm, rotate go back everything is already in place. The edje based ui is dynamic in that sense.

@eduard and jim : I really don’t know the answer but I highly doubt that any UI from the current OS will be adapted, so I would suggest to not create expectations about changes in hildon desktop and applications to support rotation… It was just not planned by them (I think) and just rotating is not the answer for them, they would need to rewrite (and even more : design) all the uis to work in both orientation, and they work with grids / hbox / vboxes that would be quite painful to get it right :/ (not saying that is not possible) just a little bit more of work than the regular work.

Brr

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:35:32 +0000

We really need to be able to rotate the screen in this and other apps.

By: Eduard

Eduard — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:18:40 +0000

Huge. Vertical mode i s excellent for lots of casual uses and interfaces. I hope xrand gets into OS2008.1 and all program interfaces that can take potential from it use it.

For example. It would be great if a long click of the maximize button changed from portrait to vertical.

Can canola2 run if you change to vertical mode after starting it?

By: handful

handful — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:56:05 +0000

Hi Lok : I updated with a link for experimental builds for n800/n810, I just don’t have the owner names to thank him but… the link is there :)

By: loki

loki — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:33:15 +0000

This is sooo great!

Where did you get xrandr from? Are there other things to consider? i compiled xrandr for myself some time ago, but there were some curious errors where using it.

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By: Richard Eldred

Richard Eldred — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 07:31:23 +0000

That’s incredibly cool, I’d certainly like to see xrandr rotation on the nokia ‘net tablets, for more than just Canola itself. So far it looked like the (hildon?) interface handled the altered resolution without too many quirks.

Awesome stuff, although I’m still waiting for my N810 to arrive :D.