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Subject:    Re: Idea for KDE 4 - global, smooth zoom feature.
From:       John Tapsell <johnflux () geola ! co ! uk>
Date:       2005-05-23 17:06:54
Message-ID: 42920DAE.4020207 () geola ! co ! uk
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I like the idea. :)  This is probably a very similiar idea to Apple's 
expose.
I think people will be playing a lot with this sort of thing - I know I 
want to once things have settled down a lot. (QT4 etc).
I want to have a go at drawing fire around windows *grin*.

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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