sensitivity of zooming the icons in the dock isn't configurable

On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 6:58 AM, rurseekatze <email address hidden>wrote:

> The sensivity of zooming the icons in the dock should be configurable
> like Mac OS X.
>

"OSX Does this", "AWN does this", "my grandma does this". These arguments
hold no water for us.
However, this is already possible via gconf, and in a branch via a slider.
From now on though if you want to propose a feature, give us a strong
argument as to why that feature is useful, we couldn't care less what OSX
does.

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--Alex Launi

The argument is easy and goes like this.

Jill is running a netbook and has only mediocre vision. She decides to
use Docky but makes the icons pretty small to save screen space. Since
she has trouble reading text sometimes, icons are a big help.
Unfortunately the default zoom of docky only makes the twice as big
where as Jill would like them to be 4 times as big. Cant someone help a
sister out?

Oh I know the argument, I just wanted to be presented with it. Cheater.

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--Alex Launi

Before rev 953 (and after 840ish, I think) this was doable by scrolling while hovering over the dock. I liked this... Clearly Jason thought it was useless (his words from the commit...) Was it just the discoverability that made it useless?

Admittedly it wasn't very discoverable, but it seemed nicer to me than having that slider in the menu (a slider in a menu just seems... funny... does anyone else agree? If so, can you be more eloquent than me about why it's weird?) I switch between my external (large) and internal netbook display and this was a nice way to really quickly tweak the settings to what I wanted for each situation...

Is there any harm to keeping it there?

If you have very much icons in the dock, that the dock fills out the whole border at the bottom, they won't be showed all when you've activated the zoom. Therefore the user should be able to configure the sensivity of the zoom.

Or another example: A user likes to have as much space as possible on his desktop, so he configures, that the dock has only a small height. But he can't see so good the small icons and he activates the zoom. But for the user the zoom isn't strong enough and he still can't see the icons so good.

Sorry, if I you didn't understand my examples so good, I can't express this in English so well.

Here still something which I've almost forgotten:

The philosophy behind Gnome and his Applications is accessibility and an user-friendly interface, isn't it?
So you should consider user, who can't see so good.