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Subject:    Re: Idea for KDE 4 - global, smooth zoom feature.
From:       Joseph Garvin <k04jg02 () kzoo ! edu>
Date:       2005-05-23 13:03:50
Message-ID: 4291D4B6.5070400 () kzoo ! edu
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SWEET :)

Programs like Kompose and Expose have had me wandering about this sort
of capability for awhile. Having an easy universal ability to zoom would
be awesome, but I'm not sure what you'd bind it too.

Inparticular, I think this could at the very least be a cool new view
option for konqueror. I can imagine a number of great eye candy effects,
like zooming in on a file until you can only see it, then zooming out
and finding yourself in a different folder because you followed a
symbolic link.

In terms of bindings though I'm not sure how you'd integrate it
universally. Right clicking is used for submenus.

Maurizio Colucci wrote:

>Hello,
>
>For KDE 4, since we have the technology, what about implementing a
>"global zoom" feature, application-independent, like this?
>
>http://rchi.raskincenter.org/aboutarchy/img/zoomdemo.swf
>
>Here, the desktop is huge, and you can smoothly zoom in to focus on a
>detail, or zoom out to have a global view. I believe this would be a
>breakthrough in usability:
>
>1. imagine how much more natural it would become to edit a picture or
>a diagram (with gimp, umbrello, etc). Currently, when I need to
>quickly draw a UML diagram, I usually do it with paper and pencil
>(instead of ArgoUML, say), because it is just quicker and more
>natural. The reason why it is more natural is that, on paper, I can
>continuosly switch my attention from the details to the overall
>picture, by just moving my head away from the paper. Moving my head is
>easy and natural. With today programs, the zoom feature is often not
>present, and I must use the panning feature---which prevents me from
>having a global view. Also when the zoom is present, it is often not
>smooth and therefore not practical. This is of course due to technical
>limitations---limitations that we would not have anymore with Qt4.
>
>2. This would probably make virtual desktops useless. It is better to
>have one huge destkop and zoom in/out, as in the demo.
>
>Any comment?
>
>Cheers
>
>Maurizio
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