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Can you describe what you mean by "not function well"? Landscape mode can actually hold a completely unique setup - but if your landscape mode is "empty" (check it in edit mode) then Sweeter Home will attempt to reformat the view of your portrait screen. This may cause some stretching or squashing...

I am having the same issues on my moto droid. I see that you can create a separate layout but that is a pain in the @#$%. I find when I switch to landscape that icons get layered on top of each other or hidden behind widgets etc. I wish that it would just scale correctly or barring that that the icons/shortcuts etc would simply rearrange into to neat usable rows. I am wondering if it could not be handled like a fluid css layout where position it re-written as a percentage of the screen. like div tags that are scaled for multiple resolutions???

Hi Lemon -

Sorry for not clarifying... I have not set up a separate layout for landscape, so my current portrait layout just gets squashed and skewed in landscape. I'm with JCASVT on this, it's a lot of work to create a whole separate view for landscape. My preference would be to have the current layout automatically translate well or to be able to just turn landscape off. Maybe i'm just being lazy =/

Just to be clear you are asking for mathematical calculations to accurately transpose graphics displayed in 480x816 into graphics for 854x455.

This means that each block is 30x51 in portrait and 53.375x28.4375 in landscape

So everything is essentially limited to being the size of a block in the 16x16 grid. So if something is one block high in portrait it is 51 pixels, when you move to landscape it becomes 30 pixels.

In your standard homescreen layout this is accounted for with icon layout by providing a buffer of space in a smaller grid. This however does not help all widgets and cause some to not display correctly in landscape or forces the developer to detect screen orientation and have a separate layout for such an instance.

It'd still be nice to have the option to disable landscape mode. Doesn't have to be a theme setting, it can be a Preferences option.

While we're on that note, it'd also be nice to be able to disable certain screens if they're not in use. Many 1-screen and 3-screen themes would look more polished without those extra blank screens.

Workaround for a 1-screen theme I figured out last night.

Make a springboard that is completely transparent (on and off). and place it in layer one.

you can not slide to the other screens while touching a springboard so make it cover the whole screen.

This will not work for a 3-screen option however.

The work around that I found was to turn off Orientation in the Settings>>Sound & Display Settings. The downfall is that the phone stays in portrait mode all the time unless the keyboard is opened.

The ability to turn off landscape mode will be in the next public release.

Awesome. You guys are super responsive. Thanks.

Awesome. You guys are super responsive. Thanks.

While you're at it, could you make it work both ways? I've got a theme I'm playing with on the side that would be more or less a landscape-only theme. :)