On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 10:12:08 -0700, Ted Gould <ted@...11...> wrote:
Wouldn't it make more sense to have a "units"? So you could set it to 0.2 m or 0.2 cm.
We already have that, up to a point -- there is a choice of inches, cm, mm, etc.
But some people (like myself) specifically want to set grids in eighths of an inch, for which there's not really a corresponding unit...
We should probably also choose the increment for the spin buttons carefully based on the unit, and independent of how many digits of precision we show in the widget. A reasonable increment for inches is proabbly 1/8" or 1/4", whereas for metric units, 0.1 seems best.
And, of course, there is the issue of when the next person asks for 4 digits of precision how do we reply? 5? 8? 20?
If people really do ask for them, I think four places is the cutoff where we need to start considering other UI approaches.
-mental