Inkscape

Keyboard Zoom has no focus

Bug #345512 reported by bluearcus
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Inkscape
Triaged
Wishlist
Unassigned

Bug Description

When using the + and - keys to zoom around a drawing, it should be possible to select the current cursor position as the centre of the zoom / unzoom operation.

If this can't be the default behaviour, then please allow it to be a behaviour it's possible to configure, or obtain using a mouse button or keyboard meta-key combined with the + or - keys.

Tags: ui
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jazzynico (jazzynico) wrote :

Ctrl+click looks far easier, but why not.

Changed in inkscape:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Triaged
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bluearcus (mike-miller-gmx) wrote : Re: [Bug 345512] Re: Keyboard Zoom has no focus

On Saturday 28 March 2009 19:54:51 JazzyNico wrote:
> Ctrl+click looks far easier, but why not.
>
> ** Changed in: inkscape
> Importance: Undecided => Wishlist
> Status: New => Triaged

Absolutely. Ctrl+ left or right click would be excellent.

Regards,

Mike

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jazzynico (jazzynico) wrote :

Mike,

Ctrl+right click does already zoom, and adding Shift zooms out.
Even better, you can use Ctrl+Mouse wheel. They all use the mouse pointer as a center reference.
Take a look at the whole list: http://inkscape.org/doc/keys046.html#id2246238

But I'm not sure we really need extra shortcuts.

su_v (suv-lp)
tags: added: ui
removed: aim focus keyboard zoom
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Guillermo Espertino (Gez) (gespertino-gmail) wrote :

I also think that this doesn't deserve extra shortcuts and I really doubt how necessary could be this feature, since we already have:
- ctrl+wheel to zoom in and out (focused to the pointer)
- ctrl+middlebutton to zoom in and ctrl+shift+middlebutton to zoom out (focused to the pointer)
- +/- to zoom in and out (focused to the center of the view), and we can center the view to the selection with 3.

This sounds like the regular "the program that I used before did it that way and I like it". I don't want to be harsh, but it's the kind of requests that cover personal preferences rather than real needs.

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