i'd love to do this but i have a non-"canonical" (hahahah!) device. there's supposedly a port but the info's outdated/missing. i've written the maintainer to no avail. any further ideas? https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Devices/p3110
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Nicholas Skaggs <nicholas.ska...@canonical.com> wrote: > 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 -- @wxl Lubuntu Release Manager, Head of QA Ubuntu PPC Point of Contact Ubuntu Oregon LoCo Team Leader -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-quality