I agree, it should be Ctrl+scroll-wheel. Also, the slider should have a "+" button and a "-" button. The one shown in the HIG does not.
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Peter Clifton <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I was just taking a look at the HIG3, and found something which > disturbed me in the zooming document: > http://live.gnome.org/UsabilityProject/HIG3/Zooming > > Specifically, the section: > > "To zoom in or out of the image using the mouse, move the mouse pointer > to the area of the image on which you wish to zoom. Then: > > * Move the scrollwheel upwards to zoom in > * Rotate the scrollwheel downwards to zoom out" > > > This may be a common idiom in (arguably broken) image viewers, but it > presents an inconsistent user interface for those with the increasingly > common kind of touch-pad which has built in horizontal as well as > vertical scrolling. > > Call me nuts for thinking that the "scroll" wheel on the mouse should by > default "scroll" your document, not zoom it. > > For most of the applications I use in gnome, "Ctrl + Scroll-wheel" is > the standard short-cut for zooming with the mouse, with "Shift + > Scroll-wheel" used to emulate a horizontal scroll for input devices > without such hardware. > > Just to note.. gimp uses the bindings I describe, with > > unmodified scroll -> vertical scroll > shift + scroll -> horizontal scroll > ctrl + scroll -> zoom > > Regards, > > -- > Peter Clifton > > Electrical Engineering Division, > Engineering Department, > University of Cambridge, > 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, > Cambridge > CB3 0FA > > Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) > Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab phone, ask for me) > > _______________________________________________ > usability mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability > > _______________________________________________ usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
