Re: [rox-devel] Patch submission: Fit Backdrop to window

[Jonatan L. <li...@ky...>]

Peter wrote:
> On Sun, 07 Jan 2007 11:36:11 +0000, Thomas Leonard wrote:
> 
>> On 1/6/07, Peter <sw...@ho...> wrote:
>>> I submitted a patch in late October, and have been testing it and
>>> refined it a bit. This patch will fit an image to the screen without
>>> distortion.
>> Applied - thanks!
>>
>>
> As a future enhancement, and I'm not sure how to do this atm, I'd like to
> be able to position and align the over-expanded image in one of nine
> possible locations:
> 
> Center image (current default)
> Align top left corner
> Align left middle
> Align left bottom corner
> Same for right side
> Align top center
> Align bottom center
> 
> The rationale for this is that sometimes, a desired part of the image goes
> off the screen as a result of the image expansion. This tuning enhancement
> would permit users to align the focus so that the "important" parts of the
> image remain visible.
> 
> Several graphics programs use a pictorial representation of the alignment
> and that would work here. The difficulty is presenting the choices in a
> logical and user-friendly way when "Fit" is selected.

I would think that there's a limit where the users should perhaps fire
up Gimp or ImageMagick and crop the image according to his/her desires,
and that this limit perhaps goes here?
Everyone has digicams today and I think most knows how to crop an image.

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