** Changed in: unity Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: unity Status: New => Confirmed
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to unity in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1216065 Title: Convertible: Auto-rotation of screen or at least rotation when pressing rotation button Status in Unity: Confirmed Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: I have a Lenovo Thinkpad Twist convertible ultrabook (Intel Core i7). The tablet mode (touchscreen-only operation, keyboard folded away) get continuously working better. One important difference between a tablet and a laptop is that you can use it holding it in any orientation, with any arbitrary of the four edges to the bottom. Tablets, like my Nexus 7 (under both Android and Ubuntu Raring Desktop), auto-rotate the screen content appropriately. This way one can simply rotate the tablet when the other orientation is more suitable, like watching videos in landscape orientation and reading in portrait orientation. It would be great to have this also in the tablet mode of a convertible (and switch back to standard landscape when returning to laptop mode). If there is no appropriate sensor, it should be at least possible to rotate the screen by pressing the rotation button (near the power button on the Thinkpad Twist). This should not be a big deal, as on the Nexus 7 under Raring Desktop this is already implemented and there is also the Magick Rotation project: https://launchpad.net/magick-rotation AFAIK they simply rotate to portrait in tablet mode, but it is very important to have both portrait and landscape available in tablet mode. Also upside-down landscape is important, as dependent on the convertibles folding mechanism it could be more convenient to have the screen upside-down in tablet mode. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/1216065/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages Post to : dx-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp