Community SSU/Features/Portrait mode

Portrait mode can now be forced on all applications as part of the Community SSU. Not all applications work perfectly. Details of the compatibility of applications with portrait mode is compiled below.

The purpose of forcerotation is not to enable system-wide portrait for end-users.

[edit] System Applications

Application Status Rotation Comments
Backup Fully Usable Forced Forced portrait mode working without any problem.
Calculator Fully Usable Supported CSSU has new open source clone of Nokia Calculator with Portrait Mode support.
Calendar Not Usable Forced Events usable. Week view cuts off on Thursday. Month view can be seen if opened in landscape first, also cuts of on Thursday. Both month and week views do not span the full screen vertically.
Camera Semi-Usable Forced Display is buggy, Photo is taken correctly
Clock Semi-usable Forced Icons are not rearranged. Can't access "World Clock"
Contacts Semi-Usable Forced Crashes on editing of contact. See #11999.
Conversations Semi-Usable Forced Needs to scrolls horizontally to read the full message. See this for portrait supported conversation themes. Or run this script to add portrait mode support for conversations.

Delete button is not visible while viewing a single message. See #11976.

File Manager Fully Usable Forced N/A
Hildon Application Manager (HAM) Fully Usable Supported Themes don't provide colourful background
Hildon-Desktop Fully Usable Supported Need to rearrange icons/widgets in portait mode.
Media Player Semi-Usable Forced Icons are not rearranged. Alternative Open Media Player has native portrait mode support.
MicroB (Web) Usable Supported When using built-in auto-rotation, ui elements such as address and status bar are unaccessible. When rotated by hildon ('enabled rotation' off in it's settings), just about all UI elements are usable; the bookmark button and the full screen button is there in the arrow's submenu, but they're invisible at the top and bottom halves of the small blank space that's there.
Modest (email) Semi-Usable Forced Dialogues, such as "Message Details" are compressed.
Notes Fully Usable Forced N/A
Phone Fully Usable Supported Add/Edit new contact UI unusable.
Photo Viewer Semi-Usable Forced Viewing photos is buggy. The system get confused which direction to show image and thus image rotates haphazardly. While in full screen mode if the phone is held ear piece down portrait mode works fine.
Settings Fully Usable Supported N/A
Task Switcher Fully Usable Supported Part of hildon-desktop
X-Terminal Fully Usable Forced When using busybox rotation from portrait to landscape generates a large amount of "blank" space between the last lines of the history, and the current command-input line. Solution is to use bash or patched busybox from CSSU.

[edit] 3rd Party Applications

Application Status Rotation Comments
Alarmed Fully Usable Forced? In portrait mode, the UI elements are cramped, but usable
App Search Widget Not Usable Forced In portrait mode, the applications are not shown, if they are searched or otherwise.
Battery-eye Semi Usable Graphic is shown but it does not fill up the screen. It can be moved horizontally. Scale is not shown.
BatteryGraph Semi Usable Forced Controls render correctly except for graph display on the left. It is squeezed horizontally to fit the display area. Information in graph is viewable except for the labels on the X-axis
BlessN900 Not Usable Forced In portrait mode, display is buggy
BlueMaemo Not Usable Forced In portrait mode, some buttons offscreen, cannot scroll horizontally
Catorise Fully Usable Forced NOT A CATEGORIZED BUG - this happens with ApMeFo and manually created folders in the menu too: When switching from landscape-portrait or vice versa, it moves from category/folder to base level
CBRpager Fully Usable In portrait mode, some of the buttons are hidden.
Columbus Navigation Toolkit Fully Usable Supported One element isn't visible in portrait.
Conky Semi Usable Forced Some text is super-imposed on each other. Some status information is truncated off the right-edge of the screen
CuteTube Fully Usable Supported N/A
DropN900 Fully Usable Forced Some inconvenience with resizing of columns
dtg - sheet to go Fully Usable Forced N/A
dtg - slideshow to go Fully Usable Forced Slide number is missing in portrait mode
dtg - word to go Semi Usable Forced Opening a doc in landscape mode then rotating it to portrait mode will crash if trying to scroll to the bottom of the page. Opening a doc in portrait mode then rotating to landscape mode will cause some of the texts to be chopped off.
eCoach Not Usable Forced No rearrangement/resizing of UI elements
Erminig Fully Usable Forced? N/A
ESpeakCaller Not Usable Forced No rearrangement/resizing of UI elements
EvilAlarm Fully Usable N/A
Fast Application Manager Fully Usable Supported N/A
Fbreader Fully Usable Forced In portrait mode, some of the icons are hidden.
FeedingIt Fully Usable Supported N/A
FileBox Fully Usable Supported N/A
Flobby Not Usable It should play in Portrait Mode, but is rotating 90 degrees Anti-clockwise, rendering it unplayable
FM Radio Player Semi-Usable Forced No rearrangement/resizing of UI elements (Elements still fit on screen mostly, so frequency can be changed and bookmarked stations can be selected.)
Foreca Weather widget Not Usable Forced Some buttons off- screen. Horizontal Scrolling not possible
FreOffice Semi-Usable Forced Missing a few icons, but it works
GBoggle Fully Usable Layout needs work
Gonvert Fully Usable N/A
GPodder Podcast Client Fully Usable Supported Some small changes to be made
Groove Fully Usable N/A
H-E-N (USB Hostmode GUI) Fully Usable N/A
Leafpad Fully Usable Needs portrait keyboard, obviously.
MaStory Fully Usable N/A
MediaBox Media Center Semi-Usable No album art displayed
Mobile HotSpot Fully Usable N/A
MStarDict Not Usable definitions cut off. Cannot scroll across
Munadi Fully Usable N/A
N900Ftp Not Usable Forced Doesn't change layout at all. Second pane practically off-screen.
NetStory Semi Usable Forced Some portions of the screen gets truncated on the right.
QMLReddit Fully Usable Forced? N/A
Puzzle Master Fully Usable Supported Orientation is locked in the game if the accelerometer feature is enabled. (Then the puzzle pieces will drift according to accelerometer data, thus making autorotation inconvenient.) In this case, the application will use the orientation the game was started with.
Qcpufreq Fully Usable N/A
Qwp Fully Usable N/A
Radiotimetogo Not Usable Search button is not shown
Recorder Fully Usable
Scout Fully Usable Although result-list shows horizontal scroll bar
SeriesFinale Fully Usable Next episode date cuts off on main menu. Always starts in landscape even when phone is in portrait mode, rotation works after phone is rotated to landscape and back to portrait.
SomePlayer Fully Usable
Sygic Mobile Maps 10 Fully Usable N/A
Swappolube Fully Usable Supported
Theme Customizer Not Usable All main buttons are off-screen
Tuner Semi Usable It can be read the note detected.
Www2sms Not Usable Forced All buttons are off-screen
WifiEye Fully Usable N/A
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