Applets - to maintain aspect ratio, or not?

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Tuesday 08 January 2008, Alex Merry wrote:
> At Tuesday 08 January 2008 16:43, you wrote:
> > On Tuesday 08 January 2008, Michael Rudolph wrote:
> > > wouldn't it be possible to use some sort of snapping mechanism? So as
> > > long as the user drags the applet handle along the imaginary diagonal
> >
> > this, of course, makes fine tuning sizes very difficult and annoying.
>
> We already do snapping of sizes - it snaps to the original size where the
> size ratio is 1+/-0.1.

and it was driving me absolutely nuts. if i have an icon that 150px big (i 
do), i had to move 15px to get any change. worse, if i wanted it to be 140 px 
i first had to drag it to 120 or 180 then start again. 

on the other hand, if i had a 30 pixel item (i do) then i had only 3 pixels 
of "give" for snapping.

10% is a bit .... crazy. i replaced that with the dndDelay instead making for 
a constant size snap zone.

>   And it's always possible to work around snapping by changing, releasing
>   and changing again. 

we should not expect our users to do this any more that absolutely necessary.

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