[Qgis-developer] Feature request Zoom out variably

[Barry Rowlingson]

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net> wrote:
> Hi Lasse,
>
> Can you please register this feature request at
> http://hub.qgis.org/projects/quantum-gis/issues/new ? (you need to
> have/create a login).
>
> Ideally you can provide some details, or even better already know a
> developer who can work on it ;-)
>
> Thanks,
> Andreas
>
> On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 12:45:50 -0700 (PDT), lasse_larsson wrote:
>>
>> The zoom out tool could maybe be improved by working more like
>> ArcMap/Mapinfo.
>> I find it very useful to be able too zoom out much or little depending on
>> how big "zoom box" I draw with the zoom out tool.
>> In ArcMap it works like this: A large zoom-box makes a small zoom out. A
>> small zoom-box makes a big change in scale.

 I'm not sure exactly how the new visible extent changes depending on
the size of the box draw when a user draws a rectangle with the
zoom-out tool. What I'd like to see is that after drawing a box then
the view changes so that the pre-zoomed extent is now enclosed within
the drawn box. This isn't currently what happens.

 Is that what other zoom-out mechanisms do? Time to go play with some
other graphics packages...

Barry