Re: [PATCH] Use labels instead percentages for zoom levels

["Christophe Dehais" <christophe dehais gmail com>]

The label could flash to something like "Default" when the mouse
hovers over the button between zoom in and zoom out. (though it may
not be a very HIG compliant strategy)

Christophe


On Jan 13, 2008 1:11 PM, Vitezslav Kotrla <vitko post cz> wrote:
> Luca Ferretti píše v So 12. 01. 2008 v 22:30 +0100:
> > Now that Nautilus is using fixes sizes for zoom levels/icon sizes[1],
> > what about use strings instead percentage to describe the current zoom
> > level?
> ...
> >         33%   -->     Extra small
> >         50%           Small
> >         67%           Medium
> >         100%          Normal
> >         150%          Large
> >         200%          Extra large
> >         400%          Enormous
>
> IMHO percentage is much easier to read; also text labels don't
> provide magnitude ratios ('Enormous' is 2x larger than 'Extra large',
> but textual labels themselves do not provide this information).
>
> There is also usability issue - in browser mode mouse clicking
> 'percentage' value (between zoom in and zoom out buttons) resets zoom to
> 100%. Right now this is a bit misleading: user clicks button labeled
> '400%' and gets '100%' zoom. I can live with that; but clicking button
> _explicitly_ labelled 'Extra large' and getting normal size is rather
> confusing.
>
> Vit
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