Re: [Rosegarden-devel] Independent zoom control mandatory?

[Chris C. <ca...@al...>]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 5:16 PM, D. Michael McIntyre
<mic...@ro...> wrote:
> So what if we ignore all of the above and take the simple way out. One thumb
> wheel, one zoom that affects both axes equally?  Would this feel like the
> reasonable thing to do, or the cheap way out?

Zooming both axes together is a useful, and visually appealing, thing to do.

I would be inclined to think that a single zoom wheel (perhaps
vertically mounted at one end of the panner widget, with a button at
top or bottom to reset it) that controlled zooming in both axes
together would be the most useful _single_ control we could have --
better than having _only_ the horizontal zoom, and probably better
(because more straightforward and with a more intuitive effect) than
having two separate zoom wheels as in Sonic Visualiser.

However, I can't manage to persuade myself that we will actually get
away without the horizontal zoom in the matrix.  I think there will be
a lot of users who still want it.  It may be that we could get away
with relegating it to a less obvious place (e.g. a smaller set of
options in a menu somewhere), so that you can _choose_ a horizontal
stretch/zoom factor, but you more often just casually roll in and out
with the two-dimensional zoom.


Chris