https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=463902
Bug ID: 463902
Summary: let's reduce the zoom step
Classification: Applications
Product: gwenview
Version: 21.03.90
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: wishlist
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: gwenview-bugs-n...@kde.org
Reporter: ava...@hot.ee
Target Milestone: ---
I'd like to propose a drastic change: we should greatly reduce the zoom step.
I've been running a hacked version of gwenview which has a zoom step of 0.92
and I'd like to claim that it is strictly superior to the current sqrt(0.5).
With a large zoom, you can almost never achieve the perfect zoom: it is
either too big or too small. Empirically 0.92 gets you satisfactorily close
almost always.
I suspect a bigger step was chosen because it reduces the number of
keystrokes. I think this is a wrong metric because people don't zoom by
stroking the key. People zoom by mashing the key and when you mash the
difference between 3 hits and 10 hits is negligible in terms of brain effort.
Think of using a space key to align words in an editor - you don't really care
much how many spaces there are, 99% of your effort goes into stopping at the
right time, not into holding the key down.
In summary, I claim that reducing the zoom step allows to improve zoom
precision without sacrificing zoom speed or cognitive effort. Try it on your
friends!
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