Re: Multi-Page View UI

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 7:03 AM, James D <jamesgecko@gmail.com> wrote:

> ================
> Zoom to
>
> O 200%
> O 100%
> O 75%
> O Page width
> O Whole page
> O Percent:
> [ 100% |^/v]
>
> {Then to the right of that}
>
> [x] Display multiple pages
> [ ] Automatic {Selecting this uses the current multipage behavior,
> disables the spinbox below, and switches from "Page width" to "75%"
> zoom level}
> [ 2 |^/v] {Setting this to a value will just make that number of
> pages fit in the window, no matter what size it is. Would work with
> Page width zoom level.}
> ================
>

Adding this to the zoom dialog would round off the feature nicely. We
would make sure "automatic" was checked by default.

I haven't heard anybody say that we should do multipage views in
"normal" mode. Is that correct?

Finally, Ryan, if I get this up and running on gtk can you modify the
windows dialog to do it too?

Cheers!

Martin

>> One suggestion I might add (without trying it) is adding a custom zoom
>> level called "two pages" (in the toolbar) that sets the zoom such that
>> you can fit two pages in the current window size. Might make the
>> feature more discoverable.
>
> That's also good. :-)
>
> --James
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Ryan Pavlik <abiryan@ryand.net> wrote:
>>
>> 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?
>>>
>>> In any case, enjoy our New Feature!
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Martin
>>>
>> One suggestion I might add (without trying it) is adding a custom zoom
>> level called "two pages" (in the toolbar) that sets the zoom such that
>> you can fit two pages in the current window size. Might make the
>> feature more discoverable.
>>
>> --
>> Ryan Pavlik
>> www.cleardefinition.com
>>
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>> As he lay there in bed
>> Looping 'round in his head
>> was: while(!asleep()) sheep++;
>>
>
Received on Tue Nov 18 03:11:47 2008