define scale by click on ruler

[Schusch]

I think it would be a very useful feature, if one could exactly define the scale of the view.

My idea:

a dialog opens by clicking on the ruler in the upper left corner. There one could enter something like "1000 m" which would define the view.

By now the ruler is not useful, because changing the scale is very coarse (hope this is the right word for what I mean).

(And once again: #798 is a related theme, would be very nice if this error could be fixed)

Greetings, Schusch

[xeen]

I don't believe a pop up dialog would make this any better: Clicking and entering e.g. "1000 m" is at least as much work as fiddling with the mouse to get the zoom right.

I haven't looked at the code, but it looks like the scrollbar changes 1 zoom level for every 3 pixels or so. Making this more fine-grained might help and probably giving even more bias to high-zoom (I've only ever used a scale above 1 km for finding different areas, so it's probably unimportant if the scale is coarser there).

Will work on this.

[anonymous]

Consider as closed with r1335.