On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 08:23:57PM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote:
> There are far too many fields and buttons.
yup
> I suggest the following:
>
> 1) For both, LyX View and LaTeX Size, remove all the "Original Size",
> "Scale", "Costum" entries and reduce all that to merely:
>
> ---------------------------
> <> keep aspect ratio
> Width [______] [u]
> Height [______] [u]
> ---------------------------
>
> with [u] the unit list, including percentage.
> The Height field is disabled when "keep aspect ratio" is selected.
>
> Then, when creating a new graphics inset, let the dialog-defaults be
> - select "keep aspect ratio" (thus disable Height field).
> - unit is percentage
> - set width value to "100"
>
> This simple layout has the same size possibilities as before,
> and also defaults to the original size of the image.
Hmm, I'm not entirely sure about this. Remember that "Origianl Size"
and "Scale" are likely to be by far the most commonly used options. I
need to think some more on this.
> 3) Remove the Rotate radio-button, and let the value of angle determine
> whether rotation is needed or not: zero means NO rotation.
Qt does this already too
regards
john
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