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Content Scale lock works only in one direction

Summary:

When linking the scale of the viewbox to the scale of the content in the document, changes to the scale field affect the width/height fields of the viewbox section, and all objects and pages keep their size - it only changes 'the resolution' of the SVG without affecting how it looks.

When - in that state - then scrolling over the width / height field of the viewbox, this will still change the scale, BUT also the objects' sizes.

I had expected the link between both to be established in both directions, not only unidirectionally.

Steps to reproduce:

  • open Inkscape
  • draw a few objects of 100 x 100 mm, place them in page corners for ease of seeing the results
  • open Edit > Document properties
  • select to 'link the scale of the viewbox to the scale of the content'
  • observe changes when changing viewbox and scale field contents

What happened?

  • the lock keeps object sizes intact when scrolling over the scale field, but not when scrolling over the viewbox width / height fields.

What should have happened?

  • not sure, but this seems strange to me. I'd have expected a link to go in both directions.

Version info

Inkscape 1.3.2 (1:1.3.2+202311252150+091e20ef0f)

    GLib version:     2.72.4
    GTK version:      3.24.33
    glibmm version:   2.66.2
    gtkmm version:    3.24.5
    libxml2 version:  2.9.13
    libxslt version:  1.1.34
    Cairo version:    1.16.0
    Pango version:    1.50.6
    HarfBuzz version: 2.7.4

    OS version:       Linux Mint 21.3
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