Hi, Problem: ------- The problem is with zoom in and zoom out. Gimp does not recenter the area user focuses on. With zoom in the workaround cost is small (the most problematic is how to zoom in the image when it still fits into the window), but with zoom out it is significant. It affects productivity, thus this wish. Example: -------- While zooming in there is simple workaround for that, it just takes moving mouse to "surround" the area you think of. The image: |ABCDEFG| (| denotes edges of the window) so let's say I would like to zoom in image (it already fits entire window) but in such way F will be centered. Normally it is not possible, but you can "push" the image. You place mouse over the G, you zoom in, and the image is zoomed in, and the F gets centered. But for zooming out there is no such "cheap" workaround. Image: DEFGHIJK|12345|ABC DEFGHIJK|12345|ABC letters are off the screen, digits are visible. | denotes edges Now -- I would like to zoom out on "5" (I would like to focus on that area), how do I do? a) move mouse over "1" (sic!) and zoom out b) move mouse over "5", zoom out, and then scroll the image ad.b) this is tiresome ad.a) this is completely counter-intuitive, in order to zoom out element X I need to zoom out the opposite of X. This is more problematic with conversion when car driver gets on yacht (left<->right problem) And more about (a) -- while zooming in, the mouse cursor movement is small, so I can live with that, but on zooming out, the movement is huge -- it is entire screen. The wish: -------- Please recenter focused area on zoom out (and possible on zoom in). Possible solution: ------------------ The centering idea -- please note that I am open to any other idea that would lead to productivity boost. Let's focus on zoom out: * I point out the area * I zoom out * gimp know which area I would like to focus on, so the whole image is scrolled in such way, that the area "travels" towards center of the window * there is zoom out performed * now the mouse cursor no longer points to the same area, so the mouse cursor is moved as well, so it points to the "same" area as before The question could be, well, ok, how much should it travel (image and the mouse cursor). The quick question -- by the zoom ratio. If zoom out is 1:10, than by 10 pixels. I think it is not bad, and pretty intuitive. Visually it is easy to keep an eye on the mouse cursor, so there is no penalty (I think so) in such behaviour. In other words for a second mouse cursor is "glued" to the image. Of course we could think to leave mouse cursor alone, but I think it is more useful to move it too. Kind regards, _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
