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Apps that only support primary orientation doesn't work properly on tablets

Steps to reproduce

  1. Install Neverball & Neverputt on a tablet with side-stage enabled
  2. Open the app

Expected Results

The apps open normally and the content of the apps are in correct orientation

Actual Results

The apps open in landscape but the content is rotated to portrait.

Additional Information

I found out that these apps, and some other apps like Quake II, limit the orientation to primary orientation. This is because these apps rotate their contents manually.

Correct behavior, at least on devices with portrait as their primary orientation, is that the app stays in portrait and the content is rotated to landscape. With this issue, these apps rotate to landscape and the content stays in portrait so basically the opposite of the correct behavior.

UPDATE: Based on the docs X-Ubuntu-Supported-Orientations only supports landscape and portrait so perhaps primary isn't a valid value hence the unexpected behavior?

Edited by Kugi Eusebio