Home Screen Landscape

[tnisatard]

It's amazing... complaints from every corner of the universe for two years about landscape texting, now people want it gone. Wow.

I guess I'll sit back and wait for that "I hate copy/paste, MMS" thread too... sheesh.

yeah, i know people complained about it, i didnt worry about it too much, but i liked the option before


but i guess apple made me used to portrait typing so much, and now theres no use for me to use landscape texting


id say 90% of the time i am texting through portrait

 

[NDimichino]

my point was that the icons couldn't just spin round like the OP suggested. the spacing would have to change as it animates the rotation and imo that would just look awkward.

i dont know how they could make it work without changing the current layout to 3 icons per row because each icon is effectively a rectangle, not a square. the spacing between icons side by side is the same as the spacing between the bottom of the text and the top of the icon below. the mockup above highlights this and it just looks cluttered. i think there is more chance of a pig being genetically engineered with wings than apple changing the grid for the home screen. especially for something as pointless as this. i mean, the icons are not going to move so that what is on the right in portrait is on the right in landscape, so it doesn't effect ease of use (ie, "i know facebook is in the bottom right of my screen" or "i know messages is in the top left".

So maybe as the icons swivel, they go from up and down rectangular to left and right rectangular, so there will be no spacing issues.

My point was that I'm texting and doing nearly everything in landscape now, and when switching apps, not having to throw it portrait, then back landscape every two seconds.

Seems like something simple that should have been implemented. No worries though, I think I'll make it.

 

[125037]

I was texting a ton last night, landscape of course, and when going from the Messages application to another (which also utilized the landscape feature), the home screen was obviously still portriat.

I would love the option to landscape the home screen. Nothing crazy, but when turned, the icons and labels just simply do an about-face and swivel to be read in landscape. Nothing would move, the dock would stay on one of the sides (depending on what way you turned it, obviously).

I can't do a mock-up, but I hope I'm making my idea clear. Not a big deal, but would be a nice little feature to keep everything consistent while switching apps, if you happen to be in landscape.

Except for the transition between apps you were talking about I could never see why this would be even remotely useful. I don't think Apple is willing to put effort forth to something that would probably turn into more of a hassel. Think of all the times that you dont want to use landscape and tilt your phone the wrong way and it switches. IMO it would be very annoying.