LyX 2.4.0-beta2; zoom slider

Jürgen Spitzmüller jspitzm at gmail.com
Fri Jan 27 06:32:54 UTC 2023


Am Donnerstag, dem 26.01.2023 um 10:26 +0100 schrieb Daniel:
> And in order to not confuse users about different percentages, we
> would 
> call the "Default zoom %" just "Font scaling %" or so. It's already
> in 
> the Preferences font section anyway between fonts and font sizes, so
> the 
> user will make the connection easily.
> 
> So, the default zoom will always be 100% but the default font scaling
> can differ. This makes 10% increases round numbers.
> 
> This will also make setting the font scaling to something more 
> reasonable appear less strange. For example, on macOS the default
> zoom 
> is currently 150% while something closer to 152% is a better 
> representation of the actual font size on screen. We can calculate
> the 
> exact number from the DPI of the display and set it as system defaut
> and 
> also provide a "Reset to system default" button next to the "Font 
> scaling %".

This makes more sense, but in order to separate it from zoom I would
rather make it a scaling factor (e.g., 1.5) rather than a percentage
value.

-- 
Jürgen


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