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It seems to me it has been designed only with portrait in mind and landscape is only a very reluctant afterthought. Most things do not work in landscape at all: the home/lock/launcher/notification screens, Store, Clock, Calendar, Settings...

At least Email and Browser sort-of work in landscape but even those take any opportunity to switch to their preferred portrait the moment I turn away. For example, I have to turn the phone very explicitly horizontal for Browser to very reluctantly turn to landscape but the moment I put it down on the table, it seezes the opportunity and jumps back to portrait.

Is there any way to change that? To make landscape the preferred orientation? Portrait is kinda undestandable in a phone although reading most web pages in that layout is a torture but presumably no one would ever want to subject themselves to that on a tablet, so I am hopeful that even if not right now, there might be a chance in Sailfish 2.

Oh and before some smart... err, person (;)) points to me that orientation is in Display Settings... Yes, I know. It does not work. To start with, system screens are still in portrait and second, I actually want dynamic orientation, only with a preference for landscape.

It seems to me it has been designed only with portrait in mind and landscape is only a very reluctant afterthought. Most things do not work in landscape at all: the home/lock/launcher/notification screens, Store, Clock, Calendar, Settings...

At least Email and Browser sort-of work in landscape but even those take any opportunity to switch to their preferred portrait the moment I turn away. For example, I have to turn the phone very explicitly horizontal for Browser to very reluctantly turn to landscape but the moment I put it down on the table, it seezes the opportunity and jumps back to portrait.

Is there any way to change that? To make landscape the preferred orientation? Portrait is kinda undestandable in a phone although reading most web pages in that layout is a torture but presumably no one would ever want to subject themselves to that on a tablet, so I am hopeful that even if not right now, there might be a chance in Sailfish 2.

Oh and before some smart... err, person (;)) points to me that orientation is in Display Settings... Yes, I know. It does not work. To start with, system screens are still in portrait and second, I actually want dynamic orientation, only with a preference for landscape.