Bug 254801 - zooming to street level takes tens of clicks
Summary: zooming to street level takes tens of clicks
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: marble
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Maemo 5 Unspecified
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: 1.0 (KDE 4.6)
Assignee: marble-bugs
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Reported: 2010-10-20 23:24 UTC by jack
Modified: 2011-04-15 21:47 UTC (History)
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Description jack 2010-10-20 23:24:11 UTC
Version:           unspecified (using Devel) 
OS:                unspecified

Marble always starts at massively zoomed out level. Each time it starts it takes me tens of clicks (maybe about 30?) on my N900 to get to street viewable level. This wastes time each time I start the app and is frustrating.

I'd like to be able to determine the default zoom level.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
Start marble on Maemo, try and view a street name in Europe, count the number of clicks it takes.

Actual Results:  
many clicks required

Expected Results:  
zero or under five clicks required
Comment 1 Dennis Nienhüser 2010-10-21 08:16:46 UTC
Change
onStartup=0
to
onStartup=1
in "/home/user/.config/kde.org/Marble Desktop Globe.conf" to have Marble restore the last location (and zoom) to change that. You can use the x-terminal application and vi to do that no the N900 or a graphical text editor.
Alternatively, change the homeLongitude, homeLatitude and homeZoom values to have it go to a different location / zoom on startup.

Of course changing this manually is just a workaround, in Marble 0.11 / KDE 4.6 the default is to restore the last visited location. You'll also get bookmark support and the possibility to use the volume/zoom keys of the device for zooming.

I was also thinking of adding a zoom slider to make it easier to make large zoom changes, but didn't find a good place in the UI yet.
Comment 2 jack 2010-10-21 11:53:24 UTC
That all sounds fantastic! Thanks for the feedback and advice on manual config setting.
Comment 3 Dennis Nienhüser 2010-11-30 22:28:53 UTC
SVN commit 1202435 by nienhueser:

Increase the default zoom step by a factor of two on Maemo.
CCBUG: 254801

 M  +1 -1      MarbleWidget.cpp  


WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=1202435
Comment 4 Dennis Nienhüser 2011-04-15 21:47:34 UTC
Marble restores the last position on startup now and the default zoom step is larger. Additionally you can use the zoom/volume buttons for zooming, so this should be fixed.