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Guys, how about this:

1 - Until now zoom levels were 1, 2 ... 2048.
2 - many user want intermediate values.
3 - Wayne enhanced the zoom code to allow these intermediate levels.
4 - A kicad release candidate is coming soon, ans doc update, the best 
is do not make large changes about zoom.

So (before having a better way to handle zoom level, like user selection 
values, or zoom step adjust) a reasonnable way is :
use the old values and add an intermediate value (something like 1, 1.5, 
2, 3, 4 , 6, 8...in old values, and in new values: 10, 15, .. 20480)
Because i had a *lot* of problems due to integers overflows in graphic 
libraries, no zoom less than 1 (or 10 in new values),
because i am afraid these problems still exists in 2009.

After the stable version, a better way to handle zoom values can be 
tried, tested and refined.
But for now, I am thinking last changes commited were not refined or 
fully tested.
As an example, last updates made changes zoom level values, but they 
were not fully tested ( and commited some days before the next release)
because the popup menu does not show all values, and therefore the 
user cannot select all zoom values. This is not very good (and could be 
sound like a bug).
and if there are to much values this popup could be unuseable (too 
big to be seen on screen).
This means zoom levels list choice is not just a matter of choice 
of values, its *does* involve more work.

Please, excuse my poor english.

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Jean-Pierre CHARRAS

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