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