tasks nobody claymed(yet)

Martin Gräßlin mgraesslin at kde.org
Wed Jan 25 17:04:40 UTC 2012


On Wednesday 25 January 2012 17:48:00 Marco Martin wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 January 2012, Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> > On Tuesday 24 January 2012 06:48:59 Martin =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gr=E4=DFlin?=
> 
> wrote:
> > > On Monday 23 January 2012 22:38:34 Marco Martin wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > > 
> > > >     * Screen rotation : not for pa3: can't be done cleanly without
> > > >     wayland
> > > 
> > > Thomas was working on getting the screen rotated with xrandr without
> > > nasty flashes in KWin. With our tests that worked fine for all hardware
> > > except my ATI system. We might try to push for it nevertheless as that
> > > would allow us to do rotation with xrandr already on PA 3.
> > 
> > The patch hit master. So all it needs now is to perform an xrandr rotate
> > when the sensors noticed that you rotated the device.
> 
> uhm, xrandr? does it actually rotate the screen so? (thing that can't be
> done due to touchscreen calibration loss, besides not having an animation)
I would say we have to try. Not having an animation is better than nothing, 
touchscreen calibration might be an issue, though (but I have no ideas about 
that).

Everything else needs Wayland as a backend and we won't have that if we don't 
put significant manpower on it for PA 3.
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