GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 305961
Make = and Ctrl+= do zoom in
Last modified: 2005-06-17 09:58:56 UTC
On a laptop you have to do the + by holding Shift and then doing "="/"+" key. So it's handy to have = and Ctrl+= also do zooming. Among other firefox does this. Patch coming
Created attachment 47050 [details] [review] patch
This patch needs work. You should disable = action in entry. check ev-window once again, there was such function.
I'm not that convinced about this one. It seem very keyboard/country specific. Are there gnome apps doing it?
gpdf, for example. Although HIG says nothing about this. It just requires Ctrl+plus for zooming. But I think we can help users. It really seems strange that zoom in requires shift, while zoom out doesn't
And nautilus too
gthumb uses "=" as well. It does not use the the Ctrl+ versions yet. But I filed a patch for that to also add the Ctrl+ shortcuts bug 302753
Created attachment 47069 [details] [review] Patch including the comments of Nickolay Nikolay, is this what you meant in your comment?
Right, but there is no need to add Ctrl+=, just equal would be fine :)
Hmmm, I'm afraid I don't understand. Ctrl++ and + are also there. So why not = and Ctrl+= .Ctrl+= is handy for the people who would try to do Ctrl++ but "forget" to use the Shift to get the "+"
Created attachment 47071 [details] [review] Patch Here is correct patch (i believe :) ) We disable Equal key in entry to let user type = there. But there is no need to disable Ctrl+Equal. We'll commit it if Bryan Clark say so.
OK, thanks I understand now.
Bryan, should this go in or we WONTFIX this?
Alan Horkan of the usibility team thinks adding Ctrl+= for zoom in is a good idea. See bug 306225 The patch overthere got applied to nautilus
The Ctrl+= seems fine to add as a keyboard hack, but I've been reluctant to allow the other single key ones; and that hasn't changed ;-). So I'd say go ahead with the Ctrl+= but not the single key. Maybe later I'll change my mind and allow all those single key functions, but it really seems like bloat to me since we enable to consistant behavior like we're supposed to.
Cut out the equal only part and committed. Fixed for the ctrl part, WONTFIX for the other.