Comment 0 for bug 1184408
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| Alvin Penner (apenner) wrote Zoom Slider bar makes it very difficult to type in large zoom values | #0 |
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A relatively recent change appears to be a new slider control in the zoom box at the bottom right corner, in addition to the original text display. This means there are now 2 possible cursors: one cursor looks like two vertical arrows and is used to control the slider bar. The other cursor is the original I-beam used to allow editing of text using the keyboard. I find the presence of two separate cursors within the same control box to be extremely confusing and annoying, especially since the two vertical arrows show up in many cases where they should not. In other words, the two vertical arrows often show up in cases where you are actually hovering over the text and wish to edit the text using the keyboard, but cannot because it is the wrong cursor.
At small zoom values, as in the attached Zoom143.png, this is almost workable, because the text area is quite large.