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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0013828 | Scribus | Graphics / Image Frames | public | 2016-03-19 18:05 | 2016-03-19 21:12 |
| Reporter | jeff | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | normal | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | new | Resolution | open | ||
| Platform | Linux | OS | Fedora | OS Version | 23 |
| Product Version | 1.5.2.svn | ||||
| Summary | 0013828: In-frame image moving / panning "handle" moves along the image and outside of frame boundaries, instead of recentering itself | ||||
| Description | As you can see in http://jeff.ecchi.ca/public/scribus-1.5-image-panning.webm , the blue (+) panning handle stays fixed on the image being panned, and does not go back to the center of the image frame after the pan operation. While it is possible to pan by dragging anywhere in the image, it's slightly confusing because one thinks the panning handle is a "real" handle and that it's meant to go back to the center of the frame after use. | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
| Patch | No | ||||
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This "handle" indicates the center of the image. So I don't see why it should go back to the center of the image frame. |
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Ah! Well to me it looked like a drag handle rather than a center indicator, because of the "cross inside a semi-transparent filled circle" appearance (which makes it look like an interactive widget). I might have recognized this more easily as a simple center indicator if it was just a "+" or "X" symbol rather than a (+). Regarding the use of the center indicator, I'm not entirely sure why I'd need one, especially given that there is no visual indicator for the "frame's center" to align to. A reason why I was expecting it to "reset" to the center of the frame after the pan operation is that it also acts as a visual indicator that you are "inside" the image (ie: in pan "mode") rather than in normal image frame manipulation mode, so that might be an argument for keeping it visible at all times. So, after further thinking, if there was indeed a "frame center indicator" (that stays centered at all times) in pan mode, something that 1) indicates that you're in pan mode 2) allows you to realign the image's center to the frame's center, then I think this would solve the usability issue I have encountered here. |
