[PATCH] RFC: ReadActivity fullscreen, paging changes

[david at lang.hm]

On Sun, 27 Jan 2008, Wade Brainerd wrote:

> On 1/27/08, Klaus Weidner <kweidner at pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>> - applications can choose to get notified of rotation events and the new
>> orientation in case they want to add actions to the default ones, such
>> as optimizing the screen layout for the new orientation.
>
>
> My activity cannot support portrait orientations, only landscape.  I suspect
> that a great number of other activities have sub-par functionality in
> rotated mode as well.
>
> It would be great if in addition to notification events there was a way (in
> activity.info?) to specify constraints like "portrait only" or "landscape
> only".

what if your application was being run on a normal PC, would you try to 
say that the window you are running in can't be resized?

even when rotated to the 'wrong' orientation, if the user is in monochrome 
mode they have a 900 pixle wide screen, it's just a bit taller then 
normal ;-) think of it as two 800x600 screens stacked on top of each other

> As an aside, it would also be great to have a way, either user preference or
> activity setting, to disable the overlay that appears when you move the
> mouse to the corners of the screen.  I personally don't find it at all
> useful (the keyboard keys are much faster!) and it constantly pops up
> unintentionally, forcing me to move the mouse and *wait* to get back to
> where I wanted to click.

this is already possible. check the tips section on the olpc forums, I 
don't remember the exact file to edit, but it was pretty trivial.

David Lang