[Development] Another late API addition in QScreen

[shane.kearns at accenture.com]

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> On Behalf Of Samuel Rødal
> Sent: 05 June 2012 13:30
> To: development at qt-project.org
> Subject: [Development] Another late API addition in QScreen
>
> Hello,
>
> the current QScreen API forces the platform to always have an
> accelerometer sensor or similar running in order to provide
> QScreen::orientation() updates, which might lead to wasted resources in
> the case of handheld embedded devices.
>
> As a fix for this I've introduced a new function in QScreen,
> setOrientationUpdateMask(), in order force the application to
> explicitly have to ask for orientation updates.
>
> https://codereview.qt-project.org/#change,27981
>

Late comment, but should the default have been updates on?
Qt 4 behaviour on symbian/harmattan was to have screen rotation be automatic unless opted out from (which was unfortunately a different Qt API on each platform)

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