Re: Zoom Patch

["Michael Ross" <michael e ross gmail com>]

Sameer,

That is interesting information below.  It is how Google Maps zooms and I always wonder why the heck they do it that way.  I have been using CAD programs since scroll wheels appeared and they all map the zoom in reverse of this.  Frankly, I think the CAD mapping is more psychologically ergonomic - When you roll the wheel towards yourself you are "pulling the image closer" and the roll up motion is "flicking the image away."  I haven't been able to train my mind to another analogous way of thinking for Google Maps.  I haven't come up with an analogous way of thinking that seems better.  I have tried to think of rolling up as diving into the screen, but after more than ten years of mouse controlled zooming I have it ingrained that I am stationary and I am manipulating the world inside the monitor.

I would like to offer that just because Gnome says do it this way that it should not be locked down to that function.  I would very much prefer a buggy version in this respect.

Mike

On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 1:53 AM, Sameer Sahasrabuddhe <sameerds gmail com> wrote:

  "Your application uses the middle button to paste the current
  PRIMARY (usually the last-highlighted) selection at the pointer
  position. (snipped a table about modifier keys). If you do intend
  to use the middle button for a different purpose somewhere,
  only do so as a shortcut for experienced users, and only for
  operations that can also be performed without using the right
  button or middle button."

And also:

 "Ctrl+scrollwheel-up should zoom into the window or control under
  the mouse pointer, and Ctrl+scrollwheel-down should zoom out.
  Zooming in this way should not move keyboard focus to the window
  or control being zoomed."

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