[Panel-devel] Zooming

[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.

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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