Question about orientation.
Question about orientation. I was playing around with letting items have duel orientation, but it seems to be problematic particularly for how panels behave. Then I saw that I could switch desktops on orientation change. Will this use more system resources than duel orientation, since I have another desktop and associated widgets, etc. Or is this sort of what the launchers is doing anyway with duel orientation and one desktop. Hope that makes since.
Edit: If I do decide to use two desktops is there an easy way to copy items from one to the other? Up to now I’ve only been a one desktop man.
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Josh Gray Thanks. Wasn’t too worried about a performance hit just curious. What I was trying to do was have everything stay where it was in the portrait view. So I had a panel on the bottom that when rotated to landscape would go to the side. But then would need to change scroll direction. And the thing that really killed it was having to change layout settings. Number of row vs columns would need to switch out else everything is distorted. Will think about a second desktop then.
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I don’t think there is a good solution to manage orientation changes while keeping the same layout, whatever the tricks available in the app. The ratios are simply too different. That is the reason why apps often provide two screens variant.
Indeed, two similar desktops will use more memory than using the dual orientation, which uses only one item, but the impact merely depends on the desktop complexity: two times a little will might remain a little, two times medium may become large…
One way to copy a desktop is to export it as a template, then reload it using the “Merge” option.
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