Re: ANNOUNCE: GooCanvas 0.15

[Damon Chaplin <damon karuna eclipse co uk>]

On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 08:22 +0200, Bruno Coudoin wrote:

> >  o Added "scale-to-fit" property to GooCanvasImage, to scale the image
> >    to the "width" and "height" settings, instead of just clipping.
> 
> Excellent, I made a dirty patch last week to have a scale to fit by
> default. It made me possible to make my animation tool with image
> rescaling by anchors.
> 
> By the way, I suggest to make this option the default. In my experience
> I never met a need for the clipping feature. Is there some goocanvas
> users here really using the clipping for images ?
> 
> If someone use it, they will just have to add "clipping=true" to fix it.
> To me it is important to keep the API consistant, by default all items
> do scale, there is no reason not to follow this rule for the image. 

I wouldn't want to change the default behavior. You never know what apps
may break because of it. Setting "scale-to-fit" is fairly easy as well.

Damon