Improve zooming in fullscreen view

[KLE-France]

Hi all,

I did search for this subject, but found nothing. If someone knows of related posts, do indicate them.

My post is somewhat inspired by this recent post by postcd.

Zooming when in fullscreen view could be better. Two things are missing (as far as I know; do correct me if I'm wrong):

1) Any innately-present indication of what zoom level one is at
In the other post I linked to, jkm suggested using the info overlay for this. However, that is co-opting one function for another; a "jumping through hoops" that shouldn't be necessary. Using myself as an example, that idea does not work because I use the Info overlay for other purposes and want to see it only when I choose to do so; I don't want it on all the time.

Suggestion: Add a visual indicator that briefly shows the current zoom-level when you first enter fullscreen mode, and briefly re-appears as one zooms the image using the mouse or keyboard shorcuts. "Briefly" being the key word. It should only appear for, what? 1.5, 2 seconds (or while one is zooming with e.g. the mouse) then disappear by itself.


2) Any way to impose a desired zoom amount
Of course, a right-click on the image brings up the context menu on which there is a zoom submenu. However, this is somewhat slow, and more importantly only provides a certain amount of predefined zoom levels. Myself again as an example: I zoom to 31% frequently, because that is the zoom level on my screen that corresponds to the print size of an image assuming 300 ppi.

Suggestion: Add perhaps a keyboard shortcut that evokes a zoom dialog, where the user can enter a specific zoom amount, or choose "Zoom to width," "Zoom to height," etc. So, such a dialog might have a box in which the user can just type a zoom level, and a drop-down menu providing the predefined zoom levels (zoom to width, height, no fit, real-size, etc.).

Or this could take the form of a float menu when the mouse is moved to the bottom of the image (Tools > Settings > Fullscreen: "Floating views" activated). Or perhaps be incorporated into the right-edge float menu.


As always, thank you for your consideration, and happy shooting!

[user0]

Suggestion: Add a visual indicator that briefly shows the current zoom-level when you first enter fullscreen mode, and briefly re-appears as one zooms the image using the mouse or keyboard shorcuts. "Briefly" being the key word. It should only appear for, what? 1.5, 2 seconds (or while one is zooming with e.g. the mouse) then disappear by itself.

details are questionable, but this is the task for snackbar, like in Nomacs
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Suggestion: Add perhaps a keyboard shortcut that evokes a zoom dialog, where the user can enter a specific zoom amount, or choose "Zoom to width," "Zoom to height," etc. So, such a dialog might have a box in which the user can just type a zoom level, and a drop-down menu providing the predefined zoom levels (zoom to width, height, no fit, real-size, etc.).

all 'fit' commands are shortcutable already

I would implement 'custom zoom levels' by allowing user to use certain built-in commands with params in User commands dialog
User commands - rework