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Login and Lock Screen greeter for elementary OS and Pantheon, using LightDM
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No zoom function #540

Closed cassidyjames closed 2 weeks ago

cassidyjames commented 3 years ago

Problem

Brought up in @techdev5521's edw talk. There's currently no equivalent to the zoom function in Gala which can be critical for users of impaired/low vision.

Proposal

Implement the same zoom as in Gala in the greeter compositor, ideally with the same shortcuts and potentially a way to trigger it visually from the a11y indicator

Prior Art

The macOS login screen supports the same zoom feature as in the session

janxkoci commented 2 years ago

This reminds me that I experience a race condition related to zoom and my Czech keyboard layout. Specifically, after some reboots I can zoom with Super+1 (the key above letter Q) while other times the same key combo switches to 1st workspace. This is probably because in the Czech layout the key represents +, while holding Shift and pressing the key corresponds to 1.

It's very edge-casey so I haven't reported it to Gala repo yet. Should I?