What about two sectors on each desktop inside which the widgets, icons, shorcuts etc. would rotate around their center pivot point to match the new portrait mode? Wouldnt in be somehow easy to implement? I know it would limit the positioning of the widgets, icons etc. but hey, there is portrait mode
Another way could be rotating around the pivot point of a sector, probably even easier and 'safer'
the only thing i really needed from portrait mode was texting, and for anyone who hasn't seen yet ossipena has just put vertsms into extras devel, its early days but its working!
okay,what is the bug now ,sorry but that not fix the problem
great job,but that not the same thing at the videos .tnx
it will be a soultion for this problem ?
any one work on it or some thing?
Seems to have gone unnoticed, even though the topic has moved on.
The bug is portrait mode. It's not supposed to be there, and therefore it doesn't work right.
The videos are showing a glitch in the software where you can get the N900 to look like portrait mode.
There are no solutions yet, since all of the core apps (phone, contacts, etc.) are closed source, and only Nokia can work on them. The best we can do is create applications that mimic the core apps in portrait mode.
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I've noticed a game in -devel (yes, I'm one of those people skilled in the art of reflashing. 50+ on N8x0+N900 by now...) called hangman. It has it's own portrait keyboard within the application. Would this be the way that said replacements for core apps work?
Too much motion, and the buttons transition too much relative to each other as they swap positions. RafaLL92's suggestion pins objects to their location and simply rotates them in place. The other option is to pin them to the sector and rotate the sector.
I think a sector based rotation would be better, as it would maintain spatial locality with other objects in the same sector regardless of which way you turn it. I think either would be much better than the drastic shift in the video.
Too much motion, and the buttons transition too much relative to each other as they swap positions. RafaLL92's suggestion pins objects to their location and simply rotates them in place. The other option is to pin them to the sector and rotate the sector.
I think a sector based rotation would be better, as it would maintain spatial locality with other objects in the same sector regardless of which way you turn it. I think either would be much better than the drastic shift in the video.
I had suggested some sort of physics to fit them to screen, but I prefer my original suggestion, where when a screen is rotated for the first time, the widgets are in a pile, and you can give them optimal positions for portrait mode, and as they are rotated, you will see the widget slide and rotate accordingly using the UI framework.
What about the possibility of setting how the icons/widgets are placed in landscape mode, and have them set to be placed in different positions in portrait mode? And how all the icons are set for each mode is user defined.
It would be nice if Nokia open sourced the default apps (conversations, media player etc..) so people could hack portrait mode into them, is there much chance of that happening once meego is released?
Personally the only app id want to see have portrait mode support is the media player, i cant quite understand why the maemo guys have gone to so much effort implementing it in the browser (would anybody actually use it this way?) which to me is fundamentally useless if there isnt a portrait keyboard to use it with!
