[Panel-devel] Zooming

[jos poortvliet]

Op Monday 23 July 2007, schreef Aaron J. Seigo:
> On Monday 23 July 2007, Riccardo Iaconelli wrote:
> > On Monday 23 July 2007 18:36:40 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > > this is, imo, "resizing" rather than zooming... zooming implies things
> > > that resizing doesn't, such as a change in levelOfDetail rather than
> > > simply having more room. and this is all orthogonal yet again to the
> > > concept of form factors =)
> >
> > Absolutely agreed, that's also my idea.
> > Yesterday I made this very quick and rough mockup on how zooming should
> > work for the plasmoids. Attached it, let me know of what you think.
>
> resizing, sure. zooming, no.
>
> the point of zooming out is not to see smaller, less comprehensible
> versions of the actual objects, but to see what matters at that level of
> detail, e.g. that you've got 3 groups and that group called "office" over
> there has a folder listing, some app icons and a weather applet.

So it's even more 'high level', then, only showing icons for the applets or 
something? (just trying to understand, my understanding off english might be 
the culprit here)

Take the current foto plasmoid. It can be resized now, or would that be called 
zooming? Eg making bigger, that's resizing, right? and at 'zoom out', I 
expect it to be turned into a more simple representation, like in Kword zoom 
out far now ensures a line of text is just rendered as a thin line...

Riccardo made this smaller representation, these three modes make sense. You'd 
want the smallest one to be even smaller (eg a mail icon), or do you want 
something totally different?

> as richard noted on irc, it's a lot like text greeking.
>
> so as to your mockup, i think it would be a really nice way to implement
> such an applet given resizing and FormFactor. zoom is a completely
> different issue =)



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Alles wat ik doe denk en zeg is gebaseerd op het wereldbeeld wat ik nu heb. 
Ik ben niet verantwoordelijk voor wijzigingen van de wereld, of het beeld wat 
ik daarvan heb, noch voor de daaruit voortvloeiende gedragingen van mezelf. 
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