[Trac #1049] Rotating in reverse and/or better feedback for the rotate button

[Zarro Boogs per Child]

#1049: Rotating in reverse and/or better feedback for the rotate button
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  Reporter:  pengo   |       Owner:  jg     
      Type:  defect  |      Status:  new    
  Priority:  normal  |   Milestone:  BTest-4
 Component:  sugar   |     Version:         
Resolution:          |    Keywords:         
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Comment (by dhopkins):

 I like #3 the best. Rotating the screen is traumatic because it takes a
 while to repaint, and takes a long time to figure out what happened and
 how to recover from it. So it's good to have a way to easily cancel the
 operation by pressing a few more times, or pressing another button, if you
 accidentally press the rotate button once, or change your mind.

 Since repainting is going to take a while anyway, I think that justifes a
 comfortable delay and some unabashedly obvious user interface feedback,
 before actually rotating.

 Since the rotate button is so obvious and tempting for kids to press, and
 easy to press accidentally, it should be very easy to figure out what it
 does and back out of it without any confusing consequences.

 Maybe pressing once just pops up a big rotate dialog (that has an obvious
 diagram showing what will happen in response to pressing buttons), that
 times out after a few seconds if you don't do anything. The rotate dialog
 could requires at least one more button press to actually rotate the
 screen, to make it harder to rotate the screen accidentally. It should
 also permit you to press the directional buttons to rotate the screen
 absolutely in the corresponding direction, or press the "X" button to
 cancel the dialog immediately.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/1049#comment:7>
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