Re: [libreoffice-users] Any reason why resizing an image does not keep aspect ratio by default?

At 11:48 12/04/2014 -0700, Simon Noname wrote:
> I can hardly understand the choice made in the default behavior when 
> resizing an image. Most of the time, if not always, when I resize an 
> image it is because it is too large and I resize it so its dimension 
> will fit the content design. I very rarely need to flatten or 
> distort an image in any direction. So, for my use case, resizing an 
> image should keep the ratio by default, and for the rare situation 
> when flattening is needed pressing additional keys (shift or 
> whatever) or simply using other handlers than the corner ones would 
> do the trick. However this is not the choice which has been made in 
> LibreOffice, and moreover this behavior is not even configurable. 
> [...] What I would like to understand is why this choice has been made?

I won't attempt to defend this decision, but I think I can see its 
logic or origin.  The default behaviour is to resize - and reshape - 
the image in exactly the way that the mouse dragging is indicating, 
without any other consideration.  The alternative behaviour modifies 
this by taking into account another parameter: the original aspect 
ratio.  The choice appears to be based on logic rather than 
convenience, using the additional key operation to add an additional 
constraint rather than to remove one.

> Is my use-case so strange and unusual ?

No.

> Do common people most often need to flatten the image and not 
> keeping their ratio ?

Probably not.  (I'm a common person; I usually don't.)

> Why this default behavior is not even configurable?

Dunno.

> ... you have to tell a casual user who is used to just use the mouse 
> to easily resize an image (like it does not only on other well known 
> document editors but also on wysiwyg web editors), ...

Perhaps those responsible for this (other) software got fed up with 
seeing so may distorted images - especially of faces and so on - on 
web sites and the like that they decided to give in and make it 
easier for users not to make that mistake.

Sorry this is no help!

Brian Barker  


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