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elementary / gala

Gala Window Manager for elementary OS and Pantheon
https://elementary.io
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Zoom gesture on touchpad and screen would be really nice! #1822

Open srcodesmith opened 10 months ago

srcodesmith commented 10 months ago

Problem

I'm pretty used to "pinch-zooming" on tablets, smartphones, and even laptops running Windows, and I really miss this capability on your OS. I think this might be a LINUX-wide challenge, but I really find it to be one of the obstacles to refraining from dual-booting. No idea how much of a challenge this might be, but it would be a valuable enhancement, at least on the touchpad, but ideally on the screen as well!

Proposal

Pinch zoom capability on touchpad and (touch-enabled) screens.

Prior Art (Optional)

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jeremypw commented 10 months ago

Gtk already theoretically supports "pinch zooming" and other multi-touch gestures and elementary currently uses this (optionally) to zoom the whole the desktop (see Settings/Mouse & Touchpad/Gestures). I couldn't get this to work inside an app though so there may be hardware/window-manager issues. Perhaps things will improve with Wayland/Gtk4.