Hi all!
Since it looks like we are going to have a virtual keyboard which
supports portrait mode [0], it would be nice if we were able to rotate
closed-source applications too (such as the Conversations app).
I think that this should be possible to achieve by modifying
hildon-desktop so that it can override the window rotation flags of
certain windows. To make this work, we would need to uniquely identify
the windows created by clients (I'm not sure how, but I think it's
possible), and then look up a few settings from GConf (or a GSettings
file) which would override the rotation settings specified by the
application.
So, for instance, we could have settings like this for the Conversation
application:
HD/override/rtcom-messaging-ui/orientation = auto
And for those windows which are unusable in portrait mode (<window> is
some way to identify a window inside an application):
HD/override/rtcom-messaging-ui/<window>/orientation = landscape
Then we would either need a settings tool to configure this, or some
keyboard shortcuts to be pressed when the selected window is in the
foreground.
What do you think about all this? I didn't check hildon-desktop and mb2
source code yet, so if you also happen to have some hints on the
implementation, they are very welcome. :-)
Ciao,
Alberto
[0]: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=68924
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