Re: Multi-Page View UI

On Sun, 2008-11-16 at 21:39 +1100, Martin Sevior wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> Today, my time, Marc committed the multi-page view
> code to TRUNK. Congratulations to James Denton who worked on this code
> for his Google Summer of Code project! I'm now asking for a bit of
> advice on how to finish it off. As things currently stand, multi-page
> view is triggered if while in Page View mode 2 more pages will fit
> across the screen. To do this you must put the zoom level to a fixed
> value and expand the horizontal width of the screen. It does this
> automatically with no preference setting.
>
> I'm actually very comfortable with this behaviour. One could imagine
> various other options that could be set via preferences or dialogs but
> I really like the simplicity of this approach.
>
> Now as things currently stand if you set your view to "Normal Mode"
> multi-page view will never be triggered at all.
>
> Are people comfortable with this? Or should we have mult-ipage view
> for normal too?

After having played with it for a bit, I find it very intuitive. I'd say
leave it as it is now, and only change it if we get (lots of) negative
feedback (which I doubt we'll get :).

  Marc
Received on Sun Nov 16 15:29:45 2008