Singular behavior (IMHO) of portrait/landscape UI orientation [duplicate]
asked 2018-01-19 15:01:00 +0300
I was a little puzzled when I discovered during the past few days that the screen orientation on my SFOSX shows the following in my eyes a somewhat singular behavior:
I have configured the screen orientation to dynamic. Normally, however, home, apps and notification screen remain rigidly locked to portrait, regardless of the above mentioned configuration setting and the effective orientation of the device. Now I was surprised to find out, that when I switch directly from an application providing landscape support to the apps screen, e.g. e-mail client, the apps screen is displayed horizontally/landscape. Even the home screen with it's status bar is initially shown in a transitional phase horizontally (although not adjusting the current running minimized apps accordingly), before it finally switches to the portrait mode. Despite these observations, I have never seen the notification screen in a landscape version.
Is this IMHO inconsistent behavior a bug, a per design/usability guidelines deliberately chosen UI behavior or a work in progress area for upcoming releases?
I am also somewhat surprised that relatively simple, but significant native applications, such as the clock, apparently do not support landscape mode.
This is true and I noted it here on TJC years ago.
Giacomo Di Giacomo ( 2018-01-19 15:13:08 +0300 )editIt has always been so. To me it feels OK...
juiceme ( 2018-01-19 15:44:09 +0300 )editOh, I see, @Giacomo Di Giacomo, Jul 6'16 and little or nothing has happened in the meantime. Well, it's not exactly killing me, but it's very messy, because it's just not consistent: I had resigned myself to the fact that there was no landscape support for these screens - basta. Not really understandable for me, but acceptable and certainly suitable to be submitted as enhancement request latter on. But that the landscape support is obviously available, but only accessible under certain conditions that aren't transparent to the user, is anything but clean. Shouldn't we turn this better into a bug report?
JMLatJolla ( 2018-01-19 16:23:36 +0300 )editCertainly, your opinion is definitely as acceptable and valid as any other, @juiceme, but the argument that it has always been that way sounds usually not very convincing to me... :)
JMLatJolla ( 2018-01-19 16:37:30 +0300 )editI don't think it's a clean implementation, really: either that functionality is available or not, but not depending on the access mode, and also previewing one thing and switching then to another is surprising - this approach leads IMHO unnecessarily to doubts and confusion... Hey, it‘s a real life report, really, that happen to me as a relatively fresh SFOS user just now...
Never mind. You will learn worse things about SFOS - and still love it. ;)
lakutalo ( 2018-01-19 22:02:20 +0300 )edit