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Bug 714932 - Refine zooming in the Composer
Refine zooming in the Composer
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: geary
Classification: Other
Component: composer
unspecified
Other All
: Normal enhancement
: ---
Assigned To: Geary Maintainers
Geary Maintainers
undecided
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-10-04 01:40 UTC by Jim Nelson
Modified: 2019-06-22 05:22 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---



Description Charles Lindsay 2013-11-21 23:13:04 UTC


---- Reported by jim@yorba.org 2012-10-03 18:40:00 -0700 ----

Original Redmine bug id: 5949
Original URL: http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/5949
Searchable id: yorba-bug-5949
Original author: Jim Nelson
Original description:

The Conversation Viewer allows for zooming but the Composer does not. Zooming
should be enabled there and should be persisted, much like #5948.

An open question is whether the zoom level should be shared by the two or
separate.

Reported at https://bugs.launchpad.net/geary/+bug/1060703

Related issues:
related to geary - 5948: Persist Conversation Viewer zoom level (Open)



---- Additional Comments From geary-maint@gnome.bugs 2013-11-14 17:17:00 -0800 ----

### History

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#1

Updated by Jim Nelson about 1 year ago

  * **Description** updated (diff)

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#2

Updated by Jim Nelson 10 months ago

  * **Tracker** changed from _Bug_ to _Feature_

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#3

Updated by Jim Nelson 9 months ago

  * **Target version** changed from _0.3.0_ to _0.4.0_

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#4

Updated by Jim Nelson 8 months ago

  * **Target version** changed from _0.4.0_ to _0.5.0_

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#5

Updated by Jim Nelson 7 days ago

  * **Target version** deleted (<strike>_0.5.0_</strike>)



--- Bug imported by chaz@yorba.org 2013-11-21 23:13 UTC  ---

This bug was previously known as _bug_ 5949 at http://redmine.yorba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5949

Unknown version " in product geary. 
   Setting version to "!unspecified".
Unknown milestone "unknown in product geary. 
   Setting to default milestone for this product, "---".
Setting qa contact to the default for this product.
   This bug either had no qa contact or an invalid one.
Resolution set on an open status.
   Dropping resolution 

Comment 1 Michael Gratton 2016-09-19 01:45:10 UTC
I'm not currently sure if this is something that should be implemented.

Geary should be using the desktop-wide document text font preference for this, and if that isn't a great font, then people should change that pref and fix it for all apps, as well as for Geary.

Under GNOME, this is the Documents font. I'm not sure if other desktops have an equivalent, but if they do then Geary should be using it, and if it isn't then that's a bug that should be fixed, rather than implementing this.

It would only be worth implementing this if either:
 - A common desktop doesn't have a equivalent to GNOME's Documents font pref
 - There's a compelling use-case for being able to change it from the desktop-wide default

Some research is needed for the former, some user feedback is needed for the latter.

Anyone does have a use case, please add it here as a comment.
Comment 2 Federico Bruni 2018-01-15 12:27:50 UTC
(In reply to Charles Lindsay from comment #0) 
> The Conversation Viewer allows for zooming but the Composer does not. Zooming
> should be enabled there and should be persisted, much like #5948.

Indeed, this is well hidden, I found it out after several years of daily use!
Ctrl+mouse scrolling in the conversation viewer.

By the way, zooming does work in the composer. But it acts on the composer AND the currently selected conversation _at the same time_.
This is a bug: it should act only on the object where the focus is.
Comment 3 Federico Bruni 2018-01-15 12:39:13 UTC
I was wrong. The font zooming acts on any conversation, not only the selected one. And it's persistent: the setting is remembered after you quit.

I believe this works as expected.

Mike, do you think we can close this ticket?
Comment 4 Michael Gratton 2018-01-15 23:29:24 UTC
This is for the composer though, right? I think that is still an outstanding issue.
Comment 5 Federico Bruni 2018-01-16 04:58:15 UTC
When I said "I was wrong", I didn't mean that the zooming does not work in the composer. It does.

Did you try Ctrl + scroll?
You should see that the zoom has effect on the composer and on any conversation you select.

I would suggest to add the following:

- an entry in the Shortcuts window explaining what Ctrl+scrolling does
- maybe a shortcut to reset to theme/system's default size (Ctrl+0 is the shortcut used by Eye Of Gnome viewer)
Comment 6 Michael Gratton 2018-06-12 05:03:16 UTC
Oh yeah, you're totally right. We definitely need to make the feature discoverable, too. I'll leave this open for the moment for this reason.
Comment 7 Michael Gratton 2019-06-22 05:22:35 UTC
Closing in favour of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/geary/issues/471