Laura Knotek
Retired Moderator
I'm not sure which OEM Android launchers provide landscape home screens. Stock Android does not. I have a device that runs stock Android, but I use Nova Launcher for landscape home screens.
^ the people asking for that aren't thinking it through.
That works for home screens where all icons are the same size and are arranged on a grid. Assuming our live tiles aren't all squares, there's simply no way to automatically transform a vertical start screen into a horizontal start screen without making a complete mess of tile placement. It would just be a jumbled mess.
The only way that could work is if live tile size and placement remained unchanged, and only their content was rotated, but that would require every app to support that capability... unlikely.
Had this same idea today. That's the only way if you don't want to make mess^ the people asking for that aren't thinking it through.
That works for home screens where all icons are the same square shape and size, and are arranged on a grid. Assuming our live tiles aren't all squares, there's simply no way to automatically transform a vertical start screen into a horizontal start screen without making a complete mess of tile placement. It would just be a jumbled mess.
The only way that could work is if live tile size and placement remained unchanged, and only their content was rotated, but that would require every app to support that capability... unlikely.
^ the people asking for that aren't thinking it through.
That works for home screens where all icons are the same square shape and size, and are arranged on a grid. Assuming our live tiles aren't all squares, there's simply no way to automatically transform a vertical start screen into a horizontal start screen without making a complete mess of tile placement. It would just be a jumbled mess.
The only way that could work is if live tile size and placement remained unchanged, and only their content was rotated, but that would require every app to support that capability... unlikely.
I'm not sure which OEM Android launchers provide landscape home screens.
Yeah, you're not thinking it all the way through. Either that, or you'd be happy with rather arbitrary tile placement.You're wrong. It is easy to do. On desktop Windows you have groups of tiles. You could have them in Phone too.
More and more UWP apps support continuum by aplying adjustable size feature to them. It could be done exactly the same way on the home screen. The groups that are beneath, could just occure next to already visible group.
Making this feature is just an act of will. What bothers me is, how apps list could look. Maybe kind of like in W8.1
This is actually available on the Lumia 950/950 XLUSB OTG function in WM10 would be a great addition
Transferring files, audio, movies, pictures, etc from and to the phone would be a breeze if the WM10 had the USB OTG feature.
There was a time we had 14 windows and that slowed down windows 10 Mobile. They still left the 14 apps in the background though. That's why some apps magically come back from the dead when you press that back button sometimes when when you think you've closed every app in the multitasking screen.In response to original post:
1) ability to do more in the background
2) better clip board
3) IR remote
4) ability of the browser to display all of the internet, not just some parts
5) unlimited windows (not just 7)
That would destroy consistiency between UI and app interface, but considering that we're in great need of apps, that'd help for some time.Google play
Yeah, you're not thinking it all the way through. Either that, or you'd be happy with rather arbitrary tile placement.
That is of course possible, but it would require us to configure and manually maintain the placement of each tile on two start screens. Anytime we add, remove, resize or move a tile on the vertical start screen, we'd in most cases want similar adjustments to occur on the horizontal start screen as well. People are rarely methodical enough to manage such "duplications" consistently, nor should they have to be. What you're suggesting is a maintenance nightmare, meaning half the time users would rotate their device only to discover that the tile they are interested in simply hasn't yet been adequately positioned on one or the other start screen layout, which largely defeats the purpose. This would also be the only UI I'm aware of (in any app) that couldn't automatically decide how to best derive a horizontal layout from a vertical layout without continual/repeated user configuration.You're right with first placement. But if they can save tile placement right now, then what's the problem with saving second one for landscape? None.
Basically I want to decrease the app gap, I like the Windows phone, but feel some of the apps
being created should be available for the Windows phone. Microsoft should have a tech team
working on apps creation.
Yeah, you're not thinking it all the way through. Either that, or you'd be happy with rather arbitrary tile placement.
^ Obviously, you can say whatever you want, although I'm not sure how bold your statement really is. I think the horizontal start screen idea is so darn obvious that it would be far bolder to suggest that MS' hasn't yet considered (and discarded) it.