> I can't think of a reason to have box-zoom on zoom-out though. It's
> counter-intuitive to suddenly zoom in when trying to zoom out.


That seems very reasonable, so I just fixed it in trunk (r14692).

On 03/07/2016 04:29 PM, C R wrote:
> Tested. Zoom has no threshold set for click-dragging a box, and will
> happily zoom to 1px.
> I'd use a different value than the global click-drag though. 10px is far
> too high of a click-drag threshold for my liking.
>
> Also, this value should probably be in the settings, and the default
> value should be based on the screen dpi (if provided by the system).
>
> I can't think of a reason to have box-zoom on zoom-out though. It's
> counter-intuitive to suddenly zoom in when trying to zoom out.
>
> -C
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 3:04 PM, Vladimir Savic
> <vladimir.firefly.savic@...400...
> <mailto:vladimir.firefly.savic@...400...>> wrote:
>
>     I agree. Inkscape should respect global click+drag threshold here. I
>     set it quite low, though. At just 4px, but no area zoom should be
>     activated at distance smaller then that. At least at initial
>     movement. After that, if user want it down at 2x2px area again ,
>     then it's not application's problem.
>
>     Now the question... Does this settings gets respected or ignored in
>     this particular case? Will test when I get near my comp again...
>
>     Vlada
>
>
>     On Mon, Mar 7, 2016, 15:45 C R <cajhne@...400...

>     <mailto:cajhne@...400...>> wrote:
>
>         Can we disable box-drag zoom while the "zoom out" function is
>         active?
>         I'm used to shift-clicking to zoom out when I don't have a
>         mousewheel, and if Inkscape detects even the slightest movement
>         while the mouse is pressed, it draws a teeny tiny box and tries
>         to zoom in to it.
>
>         If the user is zooming out this behaviour should be dissabled,
>         because it's a zoom-in function.
>
>         Alternatively, or additionally:
>
>         When it zooms into such a small area, Inkscape takes an absolute
>         age to re-draw gradients and my high-res graphics. It might be
>         best to expand the minimum area that the box-zoom can zoom into.
>         Say 10x10 screen px would be reasonable I think.
>
>         Thoughts?
>
>         Ah, there it goes. :) I can work again, yay! :D
>         - C
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