Re: Patch: zoom slider in spatial windows

[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt myrealbox com>]

On Feb 25, 2007, at 9:08 AM, Hans Petter Jansson wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-02-24 at 16:34 +0100, Rached Ben Mustapha wrote:
> > I often find myself adjusting the zoom level of spatial windows, based
> > on the number of files they contain. I tried to implement a zoom
> > slider, as can be seen in some applications these days [1] [2].
> ...
> Another possibility for windows with few icons in them would be to
> automatically zoom to fill more of the available space. This would only
> work when the window is significantly larger than its contents, but it
> would mean that you could zoom in by just making the window larger, and
> zoom back out by making it smaller again.

Perhaps this could be a "Zoom to Fit" menu item, akin to "Fit Image in 
Window" in Gimp or "Zoom" > "Page" in Inkscape. Or perhaps it would 
just be crack. :-)

The Mac Finder has long included a function with the opposite effect: 
the "zoom button" in the title bar resizes the window so that it's just 
big enough to display all the folder contents if that's possible, or 
maximizes the window otherwise. This aids spatial recognition because 
it makes different folder windows more likely to have distinctive 
shapes and sizes. (But the button doesn't make sense in the title bar, 
because it's relevant for few applications other than the file 
manager.)

Cheers
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Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/