Bug 412783

Summary: Screen configuration should have "orientation: Auto" as an option
Product: [Applications] systemsettings Reporter: m.wege
Component: kcm_kscreenAssignee: kscreen-bugs-null <kscreen-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist CC: aleixpol, nate, plasma-bugs-null, subdiff
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.14.3   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Neon   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In: 5.19.0
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Description m.wege 2019-10-09 19:49:37 UTC 
I own a Surface Go Tablet with a detachable keyboard running KDE Neon dev edition with all updates installed.
Currently the tablet does not automatically adapt to the screen orientation like i t does in Windows. 
First I believe the screen configuration should contain an "orientation: auto" when a tablet with orientation sensors is detected. 

Furthermore if such a configuration is detected auto should be selected

Finally (I am not sure this really belongs in here), the plasma system toolbar should have an icon to quickly turn on/off the auto rotation mode (similar to android)
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2019-10-09 19:59:59 UTC 
Auto-rotation (which is being worked on!) is tracked with Bug 384066. A Plasma panel item is in the works too, or maybe it already exists, I can't remember.

Let's use this to expose the "auto" GUI option in the KScreen KCM.
Comment 2 Aleix Pol 2019-10-10 14:19:11 UTC 
Are you on Wayland or X11?
Comment 3 m.wege 2019-10-15 22:10:39 UTC 
Wayland
Comment 4 Roman Gilg 2019-10-16 11:46:49 UTC 
I agree on the automated rotation option in KScreen. See also task here:
https://phabricator.kde.org/T11475

For that I self-assign the task.

The "plasma system toolbar" icon would make sense as well but somebody else would need to tackle it. You can create a separate wishlist bug for that after the backend change has landed and in case no Plasmoid is available until then.
Comment 5 Nate Graham 2020-06-15 20:28:49 UTC 
The option is now there on Wayland! \o/