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

[Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>]

On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Alan Horkan wrote:

> Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 13:58:07 +0100 (BST)
> From: Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>
> To: Christian Neumair <chris gnome-de org>
> Cc: usability gnome org, gnome org mgmiller net
> Subject: Re: [Usability] Modifiers + Scroll => Zoom, which modifiers to use?
>
>
> 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

Found the relevant post from the mailing list archives
http://www.mail-archive.com/gimp-developer lists xcf berkeley edu/msg09045.html