Scale line endpoint handles at higher zoom levels

[Peter TB Brett]

RFE from Stefan Dröge (sent to geda-bug list):

"Hi, I wanted to edit a very small line. The problem is, that the "edit endpoints" rectangles are bigger than the line, so that the line can't be moved by mouseclick. It works if I press "m" on the keyboard, but the big rectangles are annoying anyway.
The rectangles should get smaller on bigger zoom levels."

[KaiMartin (kmk-familieknaak)]

Scaled handles are a pain at the other end of the zoom scale, too. When zoomed out, it is a pain to hit the tiny sized handles. When zoomed out even more, the handles disappear and cannot be used at all.

Suggestion: Handles should not scale on zoom at all but stay at a fixed screen size. I have never seen any other graphics application scale the handles of objects. The size in pixels should be configurable in gschemrc.

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[Bert Timmerman (bert-timmerman)]

Configurable sizes could be positive for absolute sized handles, and negative for relative (scaled to zoom factor) sized handles.

[Mark Rages (markrages)]

Patch at http://www.geda.seul.org/mailinglist/geda-user205/msg00028.html .

[Mark Rages (markrages)]

Actually, my final patch is at http://www.geda.seul.org/mailinglist/geda-user205/msg00062.html I don't know if it still applies cleanly.

[Felix Ruoff (felixruoff)]

The patches Mark mentioned in #4 and #5 are already included with commit a34e326784706cb761ba689a75bef19a5b1ee880 (29 Aug 2009).