Re: [Gimp-developer] Smooth Zoom

2012-10-28 Thread Simon Budig
Jason Simanek (jsima...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Sun 28 Oct 2012 08:04:08 AM CDT, Bot Obi wrote: > >For me the super-duper solution was to have two configurable zoom > >steps in the presets: 1) a "fine zoom" step and 2) a "standard zoom" > >step. [...] > The trick of course to changing something like

Re: [Gimp-developer] Smooth Zoom

2012-10-28 Thread Bot Obi
Adding a new "custom zoom" mode with adjustable zoom steps in the presets wouldn't remove anything that anybody got used to. I don't think the programmatic complexity would increase dramatically as everything that's needed for the feature is already implemented (already by now the zoom level can be

Re: [Gimp-developer] Smooth Zoom

2012-10-28 Thread Jason Simanek
On Sun 28 Oct 2012 08:04:08 AM CDT, Bot Obi wrote: IMHO they could easily be as small as one hundredth of the current zoom level (e.g. 1%-steps at 100%). That would be too fine of increment for me. For me the super-duper solution was to have two configurable zoom steps in the presets: 1) a "

Re: [Gimp-developer] Smooth Zoom

2012-10-28 Thread Bot Obi
Hi Jason, that's exactly the point! The zoom steps should be proportional to the current zoom level. And IMHO they could easily be as small as one hundredth of the current zoom level (e.g. 1%-steps at 100%). For me the super-duper solution was to have two configurable zoom steps in the presets: 1)

Re: [Gimp-developer] Smooth Zoom

2012-10-27 Thread Jason Simanek
Hi, On 10/27/2012 02:55 PM, Bot Obi wrote: When using the short-cut keys assigned to"view-zoom-in" and "view-zoom-out" the zoom steps are hardly ever [the] appropriate [amount] Why is there no possibility to zoom in and out just the same way like panning? Why are the zoom steps for "view-zoom-in

[Gimp-developer] Smooth Zoom

2012-10-27 Thread Bot Obi
After having searched the Web for quite a while I came to the conclusion that GIMP definitely lacks a clever method to zoom in and out smoothly. Somewhere I read, that new features or bugs are discussed in this forum. That's why I post my question here although I'm rather a user than a developer. T