[Sugar-devel] UI: Advice about UI changes in Write

[Gary Martin]

On 4 Dec 2010, at 16:48, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org> wrote:

> Sascha
> I understand your comments, but I think we need to prioritize the simple use of the more useful features.
> A spinbutton is not IMHO a good interface to change the zoom level, but I am not sure, that's the reason 
> why I asked to the UI team. Another option is add a button to set the zoom at Page width, or Page height, 
> but probably another hacker will complain about too much controls...

Well at least it's one level deep in the View toolbar, I'd be happy to create a fit to width and fit to height svg icons, then we can keep the old arbitrary size widget as is. Perhaps we can make the final call once we see it.

--Gary

> Gonzalo
> 
>  
> 
> On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 7:18 AM, Sascha Silbe <sascha-ml-reply-to-2010-3 at silbe.org> wrote:
> Excerpts from Gonzalo Odiard's message of Fri Dec 03 14:00:58 +0100 2010:
> 
> > You can increment/decrement  the zoom with Ctrl + / - to any level.
> 
> Is that discoverable? What are the increments (step size)? How fast is
> it?
> 
> It usually takes me only very few tries to choose the correct zoom level
> by entering a number (good first guess + something similar to binary
> search). If I can only single-step (in addition to the few fixed zoom
> levels), it'll either be a bad match (too large increment) or take a lot
> of key presses / time (fine increment => many steps).
> 
> Sascha
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