Re: Patch: zoom slider in spatial windows

[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt myrealbox com>]

On Feb 27, 2007, at 3:05 AM, Daniel Pörsch wrote:
> Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt <at> myrealbox.com> writes:
> > 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.)
>
> ROX (rox.sourceforge.net) has this feature when you doubleclick on the
> background (I think it can also be invoked by a menu item). This is 
> very useful, if you "suddenly" hit very full or very empty 
> directories.
> ...

Nifty. Come to think of it, double-clicking on the resizing control 
would make more sense (even though the target area would be much 
smaller). It would be analogous to the behavior of columns in 
Nautilus's list view (and in many spreadsheet applications), where you 
can double-click on a column border to resize the column to the optimum 
width.

Reported. <http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=415243>

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Matthew Paul Thomas
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