Re: Zoom combo box?

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Pierre Pronchery wrote:
> My question: in Dia the keys are 'minus' and 'plus', but on a french
> keyboard I have to hold shift to type 'plus', while in Gimp I don't.
> this is not a great pain ;) but I wonder why Gimp chose 'equals' for zoom
> in (at least for me), and if Dia could choose automagically 'plus' or
> 'equals' depending on the user's keyboard type?  is this possible, with
> locales for example? I thing Gimp uses something else (if it does),
> because I only generated the Posix/C locale (Debian).

I don't know of a portable way to ask for the keyboard type.  I think Gimp
chose '=' for exactly the reason you mention, US keyboards have + over = as
well.  No reason we can't have both + and = be zoom in.

-Lars

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