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[Maciej Sumiński <maciej.suminski@xxxxxxx>]

I, for one, support the patch. I see it is not a hot topic with an
endless discussion, so perhaps it is safe to commit. I hope this message
is a gentle reminder to people who would vote against, if there are any.

Regards,
Orson

On 06/04/2016 09:30 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> This is one of the legacy/GAL consistency bits that we discussed a while ago.
> Legacy allows middle button pan to be disabled in favor of a middle button
> zoom. GAL doesn't. This patch removes "Use middle button to pan" (forcing it
> True for existing configs), and removes "Limit panning to scroll size" (forcing
> it False for existing configs).
> 
> I don't want to commit this without giving a chance for discussion, but I
> really do think we should commit this. Perhaps there are a few users who like
> the feature, but I doubt there are many. So far nobody has complained about it
> being missing in GAL, and it's a win for both maintainability and interface
> simplicity.
> 
> I'm not averse to having this feature, but I don't think it should be
> implemented this way. Other tools provide "zoom into selection" as a separate
> tool, for example GIMP [1]. I'd support implementing it this way instead, and
> can probably do that next if we want. Thoughts?
> 
> [1] https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/GIMP/Zoom_Tool
> 
> 
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