1038914 - Screen orientation locks break the 'swipe between recent apps' feature

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Benjamin Podszun]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:32.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/32.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140714004001

Steps to reproduce:

1. Launch browser
2. Hold phone (flame, fwiw) in landscape orientation
3. Visit a website
4. Swipe from the left to access the recent applications


Actual results:

My most recent application was 'Settings'. Which is locked in portrait mode.
So my landscape oriented phone now showed the settings, rotate/"wrong".

Worse: I tried getting back to my browser instance, but swiping in from the right (the 'bottom' of the settings window) didn't work - I needed to use the 'relative right' side of the application, i.e. to get to the settings I swipe in from the left side [1] of my phone, to get back I have to swipe from the top [2].

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Expected results:

1) I don't understand why the settings thing is locked to portrait

2) The swipe gestures should probably be based on the device orientation, not the application orientation. That way they'd always be consistent.

Comment 1

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