From kfm-devel  Mon Aug 12 01:07:44 2002
From: Zack Rusin <zack () kde ! org>
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 01:07:44 +0000
To: kfm-devel
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Shift-Wheel zoom support in KHTML
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kfm-devel&m=102911454714198

On Sunday 11 August 2002 19:10, Carsten Pfeiffer wrote:
> On Monday 12 August 2002 01:06, Nadeem Hasan wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > The attached patch implements zoom actions using Shift-Wheel. Its
> > very minimal and trivial. Ok to commit?
> >
> > BTW, zooming as implemented in KHTML is buggy. Try it with bugsy
> > and you will see what I mean.
>
> Looks like Shift-Wheel might become a standard for zooming then?
> Maybe KTextBrowser and KTextEdit could honor that as well then.

I know it's a little late in the game to complain, and I'm sorry, but is=20
shift modifier really the best choice? Mozilla uses shift+wheel keys to=20
scroll the page by the smallest possible margin and we use shift+arrow=20
keys for automatic scrolling already. It would seem to me like the=20
shift key is always associated with some type of scrolling behavior.=20
Couldn't we use a different modifier? Like alt ?

Zack

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"In Murphy We Turst"=20