Re: [Gimp-developer] Smooth Zoom

[Jason Simanek <jsimanek gmail com>]

On Sun 28 Oct 2012 08:04:08 AM CDT, Bot Obi wrote:
> IMHO they could easily be as small as one
> hundredth of the current zoom level (e.g. 1%-steps at 100%).

That would be too fine of increment for me.

> For me the super-duper solution was to have two configurable zoom
> steps in the presets: 1) a "fine zoom" step and 2) a "standard zoom"
> step.

Agreed. It would be great to have a "fine" and "coarse" zoom keyboard 
shortcut. But – in reference to your 1% steps – it might be better to 
have two modes: "standard" and "custom". Standard mode would keep the 
pre-defined steps. Custom would allow you to set a percentage in the 
preferences.

Inkscape allows you to set a custom zoom step as a percentage, but this 
affects all zooming. It seems to work well, if only Inkscape could get 
GPU-handled rendering, it would be a very smooth experience.

The trick of course to changing something like this – before we've even 
determined the programmatic complexity of making it work – is to make 
sure the new feature doesn't replace a feature that certain users have 
grown to love. I personally can't see how anyone would prefer the preset 
steps to a customizable percentage step, but you never know.

Jason Simanek