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[Andrew Lutsenko <anlutsenko@xxxxxxxxx>]

It appears this was undone? Zoom-to-fit ignores the worksheet again.
Curious for the reasoning behind that decision.

On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 4:22 PM Andrew Lutsenko <anlutsenko@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Thanks Jon, now this makes sense.
> With ability to disable worksheet in items panel to revert to old behavior
> I am mostly satisfied. Ideally I wouldn't have to do that since honestly
> the only time I pay attention to worksheet is in the very last stage of the
> project when gerbers are already done and I just fill in the metadata for
> publishing.
> But I can see the consistency argument and unchecking one tick box at the
> start of the project is certainly not a big deal.
>
> Andrew
>
> On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 4:10 PM Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi Andrew,
>>
>> This was intentional but I'm open to input on this.
>> The previous behavior would zoom to fit all items (including items on
>> hidden layers), or the worksheet if there are no items.
>> The new behavior zooms in on all visible items.
>> So, if you don't want to zoom to fit the worksheet, you can just turn off
>> the worksheet layers (in the Items panel)
>>
>> Is that enough of an option for you?
>> We could go back to the behavior of "only consider the worksheet if there
>> are no items" but it made less sense to me.
>>
>> (The relevant commit is 549b767)
>>
>> -Jon
>>
>> On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 7:04 PM Andrew Lutsenko <anlutsenko@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> On current master (50d2aaa97) I noticed that zoom to fit action in
>>> pcbnew now zooms on the whole drawing, including the template border
>>> instead of just on the board.
>>>
>>> Is that intentional? If so can we have an option in preferences to
>>> revert to old behavior?
>>> It is much more sensible in my opinion and I use that function a lot,
>>> I'm sure others do too.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Andrew
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