hi everyone, This question is really directed at Morten, based on changes to the printer dialog and glade file, but they effect gnumeric usability so I will send to the list.
I have been catching up with the latest and greatest gnumeric. The recent CVS HEAD is really nice. Great work Jody, Morten and team. The graphs look really great. I never ever got the bonobo graphs working in the good-old-days, so it is great to see nice graphs in gnumeric. I was interested to see that the "fit-to" printing option defaults to 0, which I thought was really strange. Reading the code I see 0 = normal 100% scaling. This is not really intuitive, and I'm not sure why you would ever choose 0. Having "0" as the default is redundant because the scale radio button is already defaulted to "Adjust to 100%" - if you click the "fit to" radio button then you must definitely want something other than 100% scaling. The old gnumeric (with this bit I helped implement!), used to default to 1, which I thought was the majority use case for "fit to", someone wants to make their document fit on 1 page exactly. Obviously they can change it to something higher, but I'm not sure why you would want to set it to 0. In the original glade file I think there was a bug (my mistake!) that let you set the spin to zero. Browsing cvs on the web I see that Morten fixed this bug (good!), but then reverted it and allowed the "0=100%" usage case. I wonder why you did this rather than just fix the glade spin widget minimum? I'm guessing, Morten, that you did it because it is what excel did, or because the bug existed we had to maintain the "0" option for backwards compatibility with old gnumeric files? Is it possible to simply not allow "0" in the spin button and make 1 the minimum? If not, would you be willing to accept a patch that at least makes the default "1"?[1] I think this is the most usable default. For my use at least, 99% of the time I click on the "fit to" radio button because I want to make my document fit on one printed page exactly. This feels like a small usability regression compared to the old gnumeric. thanks, wayne [1] Actually you don't really need me to send you a patch to change a default from 0 to 1. But my gnumeric hacking skills are rusty and it might be a good warm up activity for me. :) _______________________________________________ gnumeric-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list
