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On Sun, 31 Jul 2016, DJ Delorie wrote:

>
> The "working area" thing was around long before I started, and it
> might have just been a naive way to make the software simpler.
>
> Aside from any negative-coordinate issues (which we could/should
> probably just fix), the other reason that came up the first time we
> discussed this was the problem of "losing track" of your perspective,
> or the board itself.  Consider a gschem startup where there's no
> visible sense of scale, and the first part you add is a tiny dot...
>
> Yes, this is a minor point, but I don't think we got past it either.
> Having an unbounded "zoom out" makes it difficult to do something
> simple like show a reasonable scroll bar, for example.  Little things
> like that.

Thanks, I am trying to collect exactly those little things. If I change 
anything about this, it'll surely depend on a configuration setting.