Bug 431499

Summary:	Easier access to rotate graphics tablet by adding an Plasmoid and shortcuts
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	postix <postix>
Component:	general	Assignee:	David Edmundson <kde>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	cwo.kde, nate, plasma-bugs-null, postix
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.20.5
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=431498
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Description postix 2021-01-12 13:32:00 UTC

Depending on my work it's handy to turn the my graphics tablet by 90°. As going in to the systemsettings everything I want to switch between landscape and portrait mode is very cumbersome, I'd suggest to create a Plasmoid for it, similar to the Inputmode Plasmoid for the keyboard. It'd be great if also a shortcut could be defined to trigger it and an OSD were shown.

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2021-03-09 04:47:20 UTC

Does the Display Configuration applet do it for you? It doesn't have a rotationoption in it, but it does have a quick link to the KScreen KCM which does. Would it suffice if it had rotation buttons in it as well?

Comment 2 postix 2021-03-09 10:27:02 UTC

(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1)
> Would it suffice if it had rotation buttons in it as well?

My idea was to make it also independent from the screen's rotation

1) It could have a setting to auto-rotate with the screen

2) If on a 16:9 landscape screen a window is half-tiled to one side, it could be rotated manually by 90° and mapped to this windows area (431498)

3) In case of 2) it could also have an option to rotate automatically depending on which side of the window, which has the form of a rectangle, is sufficiently longer.

Does it make sense to you or am I overlooking something? :)

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2021-03-09 16:00:19 UTC

Oh so just the drawing tablet orientation, not that of the whole screen. I see.