Re: [Usability] Modifiers + Scroll => Zoom, which modifiers to use?

[Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>]

On Mon, 30 May 2005, Christian Neumair wrote:

> Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 23:22:02 +0200
> From: Christian Neumair <chris gnome-de org>
> To: usability gnome org
> Cc: gnome org mgmiller net
> Subject: [Usability] Modifiers + Scroll => Zoom, which modifiers to use?
>
> Bug 79352 [1] suggested that "shift-mousewheel could zoom in / out on
> nautilus views", which sounded like a good idea. Now that Nautilus HEAD
> zooms the current directory view when the user presses shift+zoom, Mike
> Miller suggested [2] to use the ctrl key as zoom-triggering scroll
> modifier, since other applications (many win apps, probably firefox or
> mozilla) have this binding. Also note that currently, Epiphany has ctrl
> +scroll bound to quick scroll (double-stepped).
>
> Windows(/FF [probably]):
> ctrl+scroll: zoom
>
> GIMP, Nautilus:
> shift+scroll: zoom
>
> we have to decide whether consistency with win is important here, or
> whether double-stepped scrolling should be bound to ctrl.
> Any opinions?
>
> [1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79352
> [2] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79352#c8

What version of the GIMP are you using?

The GIMP changed to be consistent with Inskcape and everyone else a while
back (although not many releases will included the change) and used the
keybindings specified in the Gnome HI Guidelines which is consistent with
other platform guidelines and a wide variety of existing applications.

http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/input.html#mouse-buttons

I've no doubt at all that consistency is the right answer.

Sincerely

Alan Horkan
http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/