Feature request #21158

Homogenize map item pan and mouse scroll UX - make map item select mandatory

Added by Regis Haubourg about 5 years ago. Updated about 5 years ago.

Status:Open
Priority:Normal
Assignee:-
Category:Map Composer/Printing
Pull Request or Patch supplied:No Resolution:
Easy fix?:Yes Copied to github as #:28976

Description

When using the map item "move content" tool to tune the extent of a map item, panning is working even if the map item is not a select frame, which is great, but zoom using scroll does not work, letting some users think there is no direct way to zoom with the mouse scroll.

History

#1 Updated by Nyall Dawson about 5 years ago

  • Status changed from Open to Closed

This is by design, as it was too easy to accidentally change a map's zoom previously.

#2 Updated by Regis Haubourg about 5 years ago

Nyall Dawson wrote:

This is by design, as it was too easy to accidentally change a map's zoom previously.

Oh ok. but users are really puzzled by the inconsistency.
Couldn't we homogenize behavior between pan and zoom? Making it mandatory to select a map canvas item to enable the pan/zoom tool makes sense to me. What's your opinion Nyall? others?

#3 Updated by Nyall Dawson about 5 years ago

Requiring the item to be selected to allow pan would be fine by me (i.e. matching behavior to zoom, rather then the other way around)!

#4 Updated by Regis Haubourg about 5 years ago

  • Status changed from Closed to Open
  • Subject changed from Map item zoom with mouse scroll doesn't work if map item is not selected to Homogenize map item pan and mouse scroll UX - make map item select mandatory
  • Tracker changed from Bug report to Feature request

Changing bug request to feature request. The requirement would be to make it mandatory to select a map item to be able to pan or zoom with mouse scroll. The zoom/pan button needs to be greyed-out if the selected item is not a map item.

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