Re: Multi-Page View UI

On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 13:11 +1100, Martin Sevior wrote:
> 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?
>

Do we really want all those options in the zoom dialog ? The options
seem awfully complex for most users (heck, i know a lot of people who
don't even know what "zooming a document" is).

IMO, we should answer this question first: "Why would anyone NOT have
this feature enabled?". My limited mind can't really come up with
something ;)

Bye!
  Marc

PS. I do kinda like Ryan's "show 2 pages"-zoom proposal. That's a
typical setting that would be useful for anyone writing a paper/book,
since it allows you to see the pages side by side.

>
>
> >> 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
> >>
> >> #282 + (442) - [X]
> >> A programmer started to cuss
> >> Because getting to sleep was a fuss
> >> As he lay there in bed
> >> Looping 'round in his head
> >> was: while(!asleep()) sheep++;
> >>
> >
Received on Tue Nov 18 12:49:37 2008