AP - full screen mode

Thomas Pfeiffer colomar at autistici.org
Tue Apr 9 13:51:00 UTC 2013


On 09.04.2013 15:46, Bogdan Cristea wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 April 2013 15:39:46 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
>> we are currently preventing full screen mode because if a (legacy)
>> application does not provide a way to exit full screen mode without
>> using the keyboard, we're stuck with no way to close the application.
>> This has happened e.g. with Bangarang.
>> We are planning to re-allow full screen mode once we are sure that no
>> application running on PA uses full screen without a way to return to
>> windowed using the touch screen.
>
> ok, in this case I keep my implementation hoping for this future feature in AP
> :).
>
> I do believe that a full screen might be needed as the main panel occupies
> useful space on the screen.

Absolutely. We also want full screen for video, image or presentation 
viewers in the future. Forbidding it is just a precaution at this moment.



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