[Ubuntu-phone] Call for Testing: Unity8 Full Shell Rotation

[Walter Lapchynski]

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there's supposedly a port but the info's outdated/missing.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.skaggs at 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.gunn at canonical.com>
> To:     ubuntu-phone <ubuntu-phone at 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
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