Landscape homescreen for win10mobile .

[Akssingh]

Hey folks, correct me if I am wrong but gabe Aul did asked us to poll on landscape homescreen for win 10 mobile. It's been a while ago .... What happened on this ? Is that coming ?

 

[Palm_forlackofchoice]

I don't remember a poll.

I do want landscape for the start screen and other apps.

 

[R3mis]

I want that too. When I first got my first Windows Phone I was surprised how badly it is optimized for using the phone in landscape mode.

I was so used to working with my old Nokia Xpress 5530 sideways.

Then I got Lumia 930 and was very annoyed that I need to turn the phone when I wanted to simply open another app. Not to mention the Facebook Messenger app which I absolutely hate just because of the fact I have to type in portrait mode with it, I make so many typos in portrait mode, it's super annoying!! Hell even this Windows Central app forces me to type that way, it does nor support landscape.

Microsoft should really do something about this ...

 

[Akssingh]

I don't remember a poll.

I do want landscape for the start screen and other apps.

Its was done either on twitter or on windows central...i can't recall it....

 

[r2SN]

Yes it was done

 

[Akssingh]

Yes it was done

Do you know it's results? Is it coming in near future?

 

[Akssingh]

Anyone?

 

[Muessig]

This is the kind of thing you need to mention on the feedback app on your phone. You won't get a definitive answer here at the moment.

 

[R3mis]

This is the kind of thing you need to mention on the feedback app on your phone. You won't get a definitive answer here at the moment.

If you take a look into the feedback app, there are many requests for this already. I hope Microsoft will address this.

 

[r2SN]

Do you know it's results? Is it coming in near future?

Nope

 

[EspHack]

something I like about universal apps is that they work in landscape, I think its a matter of time before they do this, but obviously it doesn't look like it is a top priority either

 

[matt john2]

but obviously it doesn't look like it is a top priority either

True. I would like to them to fix the music controls' inconsistency and inefficiency first more than this.

 

[EspHack]

True. I would like to them to fix the music controls' inconsistency and inefficiency first more than this.

yea how could they be adding things if what we have already doesn't even work properly right? but this is Microsoft we talking about so we actually get things moved around instead, you know, a change of strategy so it might work this time! /s

 

[Krystianpants]

It's likely to come in redstone. This build cycle they were focusing on a lot of bugs. Next build cycle is apparently going to focus on features + bugs.

 

[tale 85]

It's likely to come in redstone. This build cycle they were focusing on a lot of bugs. Next build cycle is apparently going to focus on features + bugs.

I thought we had all the Bug Features we needed. Or are these Feature Bugs?

 

[Josh Harman]

Can anyone offer a logical, useful reason for landscape mode on the Start screen?
It just seems like a waste of time to me, and implementation seems sketchy. Imagine a Start screen with many apps and folders, it would take 2-3 times longer to scroll in landscape than portrait and groupings will almost certainly move around when switching between the modes - just as it did in 8.1 with tablets.

 

[Chris_Kez]

Maybe you're already holding the device in landscape, or switching among several apps in landscape and you need to go to Start to open yet another landscape app. Then you might think it's an annoying waste of time to reorient the device to portrait, find and open the app, then reorient the device to landscape again. I don't often use landscape myself, but that seems like one possible reason.

 

[Akssingh]

Can anyone offer a logical, useful reason for landscape mode on the Start screen?
It just seems like a waste of time to me, and implementation seems sketchy. Imagine a Start screen with many apps and folders, it would take 2-3 times longer to scroll in landscape than portrait and groupings will almost certainly move around when switching between the modes - just as it did in 8.1 with tablets.

Just because you think it will be like this doesn't means it has to be like this....there are WAY too many ways you could design a new form factor ( landscape mode ) . I leave this job to professionals but for just an idea , how about homescreen splitting in two parts , one traditional startscreen and other fastlane type screen ( used to be in nokia x series)....just an example.....

 

[Muessig]

Can anyone offer a logical, useful reason for landscape mode on the Start screen?
It just seems like a waste of time to me, and implementation seems sketchy. Imagine a Start screen with many apps and folders, it would take 2-3 times longer to scroll in landscape than portrait and groupings will almost certainly move around when switching between the modes - just as it did in 8.1 with tablets.

Honestly before continuum I thought landscape start screen was a waste of time, but with continuum in order to have the same style start menu as I'm desktop I think a landscape start screen could be important.

 

[Akssingh]

Honestly before continuum I thought landscape start screen was a waste of time, but with continuum in order to have the same style start menu as I'm desktop I think a landscape start screen could be important.

Exactly..... Landscape can offer a different dimension to how we use our phones.