Hi :) Nicely done! :) Thanks for doing that Regards from Tom )
On 13 April 2014 12:26, Simon <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > Thank you for your answers, and yes they help since I can now better figure > out what went on when this choice has been made. > > Lately, I had to configure an OS X desktop for some friend. By default the > scroll wheel works in opposite sense in OS X in regards to the other common > OSes (at least Windows and Linux). By digging in its configuration screen I > could find a check box allowing to disable what was called "natural > scrolling". > > The same way LibreOffice seems to have made the the choice to offer > "natural > resizing" by default, ie. a functionality where the resizing follows > exactly > mouse movement. Pressing the shift key therefore enables an additional > feature, actually some kind of helper, which will help the resizing to keep > the image ratio even it does not follow exactly mouse movement anymore. > > However, here is the point that in computer science, what is "natural" and > what is "expected" are often far from being the same things. There are tons > of helpers that are triggered automatically which makes life easier and > make > the computer act smarter. The same way than in the above example there was > somewhere a check-box allowing to choose between "natural scrolling" and > what I may call "expected scrolling", it should be a nice feature to have > an > option (either somewhere in the configuration screen or, probably even > better, in the form of an icon in the image toolbar) which will allow the > end-user to choose the expected resizing behaviors. > > I've now just created the bug / enhancement request (seems that both links > lead to the same page) 77393: > > https://www.libreoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=77393 > <https://www.libreoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=77393> > > Regards, > Simon. > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Any-reason-why-resizing-an-image-does-not-keep-aspect-ration-by-default-tp4105095p4105138.html > Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
