[mythtv] Ticket #10585: MythGallery does not scale images properly to fit screen

[Stuart Morgan]

On Thursday 05 Jul 2012 14:44:37 Gavin Hurlbut wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Michael Hughes <marynya at compuserve.com> 
wrote:
> > Paul Harrison wrote:
> >> Does toggling the fullscreen/scale to fit mode make any difference
> >> ('w'
> >> key by default IIRC) ?
> > 
> > That got it! Since it is not in the current MythGallery documentation,
> > it
> > must be a fairly new feature. It seems to have three values, two of
> > which
> > look the same on my setup.
> > 
> > Thanks for the help and sorry for the trouble!
> 
> That's actually what I was referring to as the zoom setting.  Glad it
> got all worked out in the end.  I have it mapped to a remote key (for
> use during playback of widescreen that got put into SD and then played
> back in HD...)
> 
> Sorry, I forgot there were two zoom/window mode settings that were
> totally separate, or I woulda been more specific.

I think we should be giving some visual feedback/indication of the zoom/fill 
status. Ideally flash it up on screen when the fill/zoom buttons are pressed 
and maybe also once for 3-4 seconds when you first start viewing images.

It's not the best user experience to be blindly pressing buttons with no 
feedback given in the hope that it eventually restores the picture to the 
desired size/fill/zoom/rotation/whatever. Worse if you happen to accidentally 
nudge a button you probably won't know what has just changed and therefore how 
to undo it.

There's also no context menu for that screen, so no way to fix these things 
without  knowing the bindings.
-- 
Stuart Morgan