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discoleo: if having more pages on the screen to make better use of the screen
space is the primary motivation for this issue (at least I assume that it is for
the majority of people that voted here) - why should we leave half of the screen
empty before the first page?
I would go for e.g. "1+2 - 3+4 - 5+6" etc instead of "1 - 2+3 - 4+5 - 6" as we
would get when we followed the "book" logic.
The "odd/even" page logic IMHO also adds an unnessary complexity. Consider a
"landscape" page between some "portrait" formatted pages - this would create
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or what else? IMHO a questionable benefit. I would put all pages into a single
"ribbon" and then "scroll" through them, always displaying as much of them as
fit on the screen. Most people should be happy with that.
So from that you can see that I also don't want to have more than one "row" of
pages displayed at a time. This makes everything a lot more complex and I don't
see the big benefit here. Theoretically the number of pages per row can vary and
this makes the positioning algorithm unnecessary complex. Positioning all pages
beneath each other, displaying as much of them as fit to the screen is easier
and costs less development time. And development time is a scarce resource!
Currently there's still noone available who could start working on the new
positioning algorithm. I'm hoping for the best.
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