GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 316555
zoom should also support keypad +/-
Last modified: 2008-01-15 13:00:30 UTC
on for instance the slovenian keyboard, which i'm using, using + or - to zoom in or out in gimp is not handy because + is on that keyboard just on the left of backspace while - is just on the left of the right shift. it would be much handier to *also* let the user use the + and - of the keypad, which are handily together at the right of the keyboard. there's no need to remove support for the existing +/- keys, just add support for those on the keypad, that would be great. it's not a drama, because in gimp it's easy to change keyboard shortcuts, and changing this shortcut is the first thing that I do everytime I install gimp. inkscape does this right, nautilus is like gimp. I submitted bug #316553 for nautilus. Other information:
AFAIK, GTK+ doesn't support to bind multiple keys to the same action. Otherwise we would of course have done this change already. But perhaps there is a way we haven't yet though of?
i don't know but nautilus in 2.12 apparently has the fix as well. you can see their patch there: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=48537&action=view from bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309018 I also checked again and inkscape does zoom for both keys (keypad and normal).
Not very elegant and somewhat irritating to have two entries for Zoom In/Out in the keyboard shortcut editor, but I think the advantages outweight this: 2005-09-18 Sven Neumann <sven@gimp.org> * app/actions/view-actions.c (view_zoom_actions): * menus/image-menu.xml.in: added extra Zoom In/Out actions and bind them to the Add/Subtract keys on the keypad (bug #316555).
great, thank you very much :-) that WAS fast reaction... i agree about advantages outweighting lack of elegance.
*** Bug 352510 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***