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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah, this is the last call for disagreement, I'm going to push this tomorrow
if nobody speaks up.

On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 03:23:45PM +0200, Maciej Sumiński wrote:
> 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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