Ideal screen rotation

Michael 'Mickey' Lauer mickey at vanille-media.de
Sun Nov 8 12:56:05 CET 2009


Am Sonntag, den 08.11.2009, 14:39 +1100 schrieb Carsten Haitzler:
> so to me - it makes perfect sense for such a desired state to be put into the x
> domain entirely as the property is related directly to the display/screen. gsm
> makes no sense being properties/events of x11. neither does wifi, or bt.... but
> brightness of screen, current abient lighting sensor data, etc. makes
> sense. as such x also covers input devices (kbd, mouse), thus anything you can
> deem to be an input device (touchscreen, buttons on the device, accelerometrs
> etc.) makes sense to put via x11, not dbus. its within the logical domain for
> its functionality.

In the light of more versatile use I prefer this to be via dbus, but I'd
absolutely welcome an fsodeviced plugin that sets an atom on the root
window.

:M:





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