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Bug 633372 - Add a "best fit" magnifier icon/button to make the zooming slider more discoverable
Add a "best fit" magnifier icon/button to make the zooming slider more discov...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: pitivi
Classification: Other
Component: User interface
Git
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
: 0.14
Assigned To: Pitivi maintainers
Pitivi maintainers
: 636476 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-10-28 15:59 UTC by Jean-François Fortin Tam
Modified: 2011-03-22 16:21 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Attachments
screenshot (15.64 KB, image/png)
2010-10-28 15:59 UTC, Jean-François Fortin Tam
Details
mockup (11.46 KB, image/png)
2010-10-28 16:06 UTC, Jean-François Fortin Tam
Details

Description Jean-François Fortin Tam 2010-10-28 15:59:12 UTC
Created attachment 173406 [details]
screenshot

Adding a "magnifier" icon on the left of the slider may be a good way to provide a visual clue of what the slider is used for. Some users may not know what it does (or not even notice it).

A single icon like that would use less space than a text label or using two icons (+ and -).
Comment 1 Jean-François Fortin Tam 2010-10-28 16:06:59 UTC
Created attachment 173407 [details]
mockup

Actually, now that I think of it, we could kill two birds with one stone if we make that icon a button, and connect the button to the _set_best_zoom_ratio method.
Not only would the button's icon give an indication of what the adjacent slider does, but users could click the button to reset the zoom to "fit the timeline".
Comment 2 Jean-François Fortin Tam 2010-12-01 18:38:46 UTC
Implemented, along with the menu item, in my zoom_fit_button branch.
Comment 3 Jean-François Fortin Tam 2010-12-04 22:45:34 UTC
*** Bug 636476 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Jean-François Fortin Tam 2011-03-22 16:21:58 UTC
commit b6d4a5cf10f0ffd9615c66f338459ac8bbb7f46f
Author: Jean-François Fortin Tam <nekohayo@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Dec 1 13:12:43 2010 -0500

    Add a "zoom fit" button near the zoom slider


And relevant commits up to e6699027bc928bb6af3b99a1dd8ed4c02db2aece