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On Sun, 31 Jul 2016, DJ Delorie wrote:

>
>> Would it make sense to just have an area say 2x in each dimension
>> larger than board?  So you can stack parts "next" to what you're working
>> on.  IIRC zoom out is clamped something like this so you can't lose
>> the board.
>
> The lesstif GUI does that, and the gtk one might too.
>

Yup, while I was experimenting with some checks disabled, allowing me to 
move things off-board, they started to disappear when they were about 2x 
further from the board edge, with gtk.