Re: [Usability] Zoom control

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 14:06 +0200, Reinout van Schouwen wrote:

> Allow me to do a proposal of my own:
> 
> (+) [units] (-)
> 
> This layout is similar to the nautilus zoom widget. Evince already 
> allows configuring the toolbar widgets like this. Open questions: should 
> this be a unified widget or should these be three separate widgets; and: 
> should there be guidelines about when to use percentage values (100%) 
> and when to use descriptions? ("Page width")

I suspect we'd need at least two 'single unified controls' :)  As you
say, some apps need non-numeric zoom levels like "fit to window" and
"fit width", and anything with +/- buttons doesn't really quite make
sense for those, IMHO.  But equally, a drop-down list of values doesn't
suit apps with infinitely-adjustable zoom levels.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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