[Suggestion] Please allow DeX to run in portriat mode

[JohnH]

DeX is extremely powerful, and I would love to be able to use it 100% of the time on my Tab S8+. The lack of portriat mode is unfortunate, and I'm hopeful Samsung developers consider this addition sometime soon. Swapping between portriat and landscape in DeX will have some issues regarding window layout and taskbar density, so here are a few solutions to those issues:

1) Collapse taskbar system icons and only display WiFi, Battery, Date, and Time. To view other system icons such screenshot, notifications, keyboard, and volume, pressing an arrow icon will expand the system tray. Navigation, finder, and the app drawer icon should stay visible on the left. Open apps which don't fit in the more limited space are hidden behind the "..." icon already present.

2) Windows retain their existing location, sizing, and aspect ratio. Apps readjust to fit updated windows. This is demonstrated in the attatched image. This will require users to resize certain windows if necessary, but I believe this is the best solution. This way, the tablet does not need to rearrange windows when rotating the display, and window layouts can remain predictable for both power and casual users.

3) Apps which have an open window on the home-screen but are not actively running are minimized when switching between landscape and portriat mode. When they are reopened, their orientation is updated. DeX only allows for up to 5 apps to be running at once, but supports way more than 5 windows being visible on the home-screen. This solves the problem regarding what should be done with windowed sleeping apps

[Nylah]

Hi JohnH, thank you for taking time and giving us your valuable feedback and suggestions.

We'll ensure to forward this to our team for further review and hopefully all the features that your'e expecting might be added in a future update.

[Day_Walker]

Y?!
Why would a person want this? Youve not mentioned whats the benefit??

Every desktop os since after cobol or eMACS runs in landscape since 1989 prettty much. Humans see better n more information in landscape - peripheral vision & all. Why go backwards in comouting? Im trying to understand the benefit of loosing screen real-estate & guving up a desktop platform to be limited to a portrait view??

[JohnH]

MacOS and Windows can both run in portrait orientation.

Dex could be used 100% of the time if it rotated with the tablet. Turn on rotation lock if you don't want to use it a certain way.

[Day_Walker]

I know this, but just because others CAN still do not define your reason for nor the use case.

Example scrwwn rotarion is suported on MacOS and Windows as lawyers and IT techs heavily rely on the following apps used in portrait mode:

Lawyers: MS Word (for legal documents that tend to traditionally be 10's/100's of pages long and thus lots of longitudinal scrolling is required for proofreading).

I.T. Techs: MS Outlook for the number of emails, especially service desk tickets (email notifications) for triage.

^ that's 2 great big examples, corporate industry agnostic (financial, mining, research, etc) of use case or a reason why. Thia is what i was asking of you, for example.

It helps to state a reason why to implement a feature va juat requesting it. This helps Samsung, for example, understand the use case variables and refine the featyre if implemented to work better on the first roll-out; less gripes.

The 1920's Ford mantea of 'Build it they'll come' (or build it theyll take it/accept it) hasnt worked for decades and its poor to use when it comes to aofrwsre R&D and implementarion and cost perspective.

Not all apps will work well on a larger screen for 90 rotation for a desktop mode - especially when screen mirroring already exists and works well with a screen rotated to portrait mode. Thats why I'm suggesting to state a use case.

Cheers.

[Day_Walker]

In fact, have you used Dex, as this already does what you're asking.

[JohnH]

I'm not reading all of that. Sorry my man.

This post is 2 years old. Get a hobby.

[Day_Walker]

Yeah, i realized that. U did hiwever reply, so it has some relavence today. Maybe others can benefit. Im technical.minded, so it is my hobby, lol but its whatevever not my loss