hello, i’m looking for a way to adjust the zoom step with ctrl+mouse wheel on gwenview. when i’m in full screen, i sometimes want to change the zoom by 1%, but the zoom slider isn’t available, and the ctrl+mouse wheel increments are often too large for the zoom level i want. Is there such a thing available? Is there a way to bring up the zoom slider in full screen that i’m missing? last time i asked a question here i was ridiculed for asking it, and, i know this is the internet and hating people for asking questions is the norm, but please, i just want to zoom in at smaller steps in full screen, if this question is too dumb, i’d rather not get any replies. thank you
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This is actually quite the issue - generally, I go with ‘F’ fitting to screen or full size.
The zoom slider is slightly fiddly, and I’m not sure you can adjust the setting for mouse scroll in the settings… Pressing F3 to reveal the statusbar does show next to the zoom slider there’s a detail (Fill, or 100% maybe) but you can’t enter a value there, and that’s a bit janky anyway.
This is of interest to me today, because I recently fine tuned my MPV ‘speed’ control by entering my own values to put something in between the ‘fine’ 1.1 adjustment and the ‘coarse’ ×2 adjustment… so I do apprediate the option for fine tuning.
I effectively halved the ‘coarse’ steps to be √2 and 1/√2 (basically press TWO times to double or halve the speed)… if we could do that for Gwenview: 0.7071067811865475 and 1.4142135623730951 worked to precisely adjust my MPV setting by a factor of two… for a finer adjustment you could enter something like 1.1 and 0.9.
Zoom steps are fixed percentages, and they were made deliberately bigger back in 2005…
So yes, it would be nice to have an option to enter in config or settings a finer multiplier…
You can do it clicking in the zoom % and typing.
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I don’t think that works well at all… loading an image to ‘fit’ or ‘fill’ works ok, then mouse wheel will double or halve the % in that window as will using up/down arrows, You can’t successfully type any other value; I just tried to put 66, or 75% and it doesn’t work - it’s fixed.
What would be useful (as with MPV’s double/half speed) is the option to input a new value, such that each step is about half that - √2 works well (2 presses to go from 100 to 200% instead of one).
To be honest, though, between ‘Fit’ (where an image will shrink to fit) and ‘fill’ and then 100%, I’m usually covered - but I do think the steps could be halved, or even quartered seeing as how easy it is to roll the wheel.
Thinking about it logically, however, if you have an image 1 px, then ‘increasing’ should take it to 2x2. Using other factors is more difficult simply due to the scaling - assuming you have whole pixels, the maths maybe just gets janky with lots of decimal places.
It seems pretty consistent (Gimp, for example, and other viewers) so there’s got to be a good reason for this.