[Kde-graphics-devel] Anyone there? Does anyone have ideas toimplement KPDF like zooming in Konqueror?

[Friedrich W. H. Kossebau]

Am Mittwoch, 2. März 2005 17:51, schrieb Zack Rusin:
> On Wednesday 02 March 2005 11:39, Marcel Partap wrote:
> > Besides technical feasibility: what do you folk say about usability?
> > Are there any disadvantages?
>
> It's something probably every khtml thought about for many years. The
> reason no one even bothered with it is that no one thought that it'd be
> worth doing at this point. I don't see really any case where this would
> be a killer feature.

Never having done a work presentation on your computer right on your display, 
to a bunch of people standing a few meters away? I have wished a lot of times 
that all apps could enlarge their content views... Switching to a lower 
resolution is one solution, but not my favourite...

> It's a nice thing, sure, but nothing you couldn't 
> live without. And considering that it is something that would be very
> hard to implement properly in khtml I don't think anyone will bother.
>
> Especially that in the coming months all apps will get that for free
> (you could do it today, by rendering the window as a texture on a quad
> in GL but you'd still have to transform and map input events
> correctly).

Will they? Will there be independent zooming of the content views, without 
enlarging the toolbars and other helper widgets?

Regards
Friedrich
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