If you have device, give this a shot!
-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [Ubuntu-phone] Call for Testing: Unity8 Full Shell Rotation Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 09:50:14 -0600 From: Kevin Gunn <kevin.g...@canonical.com> To: ubuntu-phone <ubuntu-ph...@lists.launchpad.net> Hi all, First, thank you for considering to participate in this testing. Your effort helps us find issues to fix & gain the confidence we need to land this feature. Background... Recently the Unity UI team has put in effort around "full shell rotation". This is the feature where the shell follows the application orientations. You might have noticed the indicator panel stays put when the messaging application moves from portrait to landscape on the phone, this "fixes" that. Likewise, when an application is fixed to a position out of preference, the shell will also remain in the applications preferred orientation. In order to deliver this feature we had to break applications expression of orientation. Which drove us to discuss with our Canonical stakeholders in the SDK team, Design team, and Community applcations whether or not applications should have to express rotation support (opt-in) or rotate all applications by default, unless they specify their orientations (opt-out). We collectively decided it's best to have an opt-out approach. We've included this change into this ppa for testing. So it's a great opportunity for application developers to update their applications and test ahead of our landing. the plan.... Everything you need to know is here https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity8/FullShellRotation I will ask for a little grace on this as I feel I may have pushed this out a bit early. The feature is working on phone but there are definitely issues on unity8-desktop & tablets that would prevent us from landing. However I felt like making this call for testing now was important to start getting feedback and ready folks for the idea of opt-out application rotation. That being said we'll probably keep this call for testing open a bit longer than one might expect to both get comfortable & confident with the change, as well as make the final bug fixes/polish needed to get it landed. If you have any questions, let me know. Thanks for testing! br,kg -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-ph...@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-quality