On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 23:27 +1100, Michael Ward wrote: > Peter Harvey wrote: > > What is wrong with the zoom widget? I would think that new users would > > be more confused with buttons as there is no concept of "default" or > > "normal" zoom. > > Who wants to select "normal" zoom? If a page's text is too small to > read, I want to increase the font size; if a page's content doesn't all > fit, I might like to decrease the font size. Is a reference point very > often necessary?
Personally I set the minimum font size to 8 or 9, and have virtually no problems with websites. If I zoom in on a page I like to be able to reset to my default settings later. > For me, the main advantage of a list of percentages is that I can jump > two or three levels in one go, but this takes two clicks versus one > click on a zoom in or zoom out button. To jump two or three levels in one go would take two or three clicks on a zoom button. Or did I misunderstand? > I think Evince now defaults to having zoom in and zoom out buttons, or > at least that's my current configuration there. Ironically this is a > program that /can/ benefit from more precise options such as "original > size" and "fit width", but then I think it also has icons for that, as > well as very easily accessible menu items. Evince is an application where zooming is a common operation, so having such options makes more sense there. > Edit->Preferences is a silly place to put a menu in my opinion. > Applications that do the menu bar well have a menu for every major > object that can have actions applied to it (e.g. Program, File, Tabs, > Tools, etc.). I think they are actually best when thought of as > glorified context menus. In this case, the preferences either fall > under /Program Name/->Preferences, Program->Preferences, or a top-level > Preferences menu (or why not just "Settings"?). I agree with that, but in a document-centric application (which Epiphany tries to be) it is difficult to justify a Program menu. And a Preferences menu seems overkill as "setting your preferences" isn't meant to be a set of functions that you use frequently. Edit/Preferences only makes sense to me as it is similar to Edit/PersonalData. Regards, Peter. _______________________________________________ epiphany-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/epiphany-list
