Bug 106900

Summary: Zoom/resize desktop icons with Ctrl+scroll, as in Dolphin
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: Gábor Lehel <illissius>
Component: Desktop icons & Folder View widgetAssignee: Eike Hein <hein>
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: wishlist CC: bugseforuns, chaofeng111, kde, nate, plasma-bugs-null
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.11.4   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Compiled Sources   
OS: Linux   
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Description Gábor Lehel 2005-06-06 16:38:06 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources

Just about everywhere else where icons are shown, they can be zoomed with ctrl+scrollwheel. This doesn't work on the desktop. It'd be nice to have, if only for the sake of consistency and the coolness factor.

(and, for future reference (just guessing this time), do consistency issues count as bugs or wishes?)
Comment 1 Eike Hein 2018-01-01 13:20:22 UTC 
> (and, for future reference (just guessing this time), do consistency issues count as bugs or wishes?)

Usually bugs.
Comment 2 Kai Uwe Broulik 2018-01-01 13:23:21 UTC 
Adding this to Folder View is trivial but this might easily end up messing up your icon positions if done accidentally.
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2018-01-01 15:52:23 UTC 
That concern applies to Dolphin and Konqueror, too. Maybe we should add it to Folder view but then have it controlled by a global setting. Or remove it from everywhere and risk the wrath of the small percent of users who use it...
Comment 4 Kai Uwe Broulik 2018-01-01 15:55:04 UTC 
In Dolphin you cannot manually arrange your icons and won't mess anything up if you zoom in and back out.

One could remember the position per size or do other trickery but imho that's not worth it for an imho seldom used feature, at least on the desktop you're unlikely to frequently change icon sizes, no?
Comment 5 Nate Graham 2023-04-27 16:55:16 UTC 
I agree with Kai, this has the potential to cause huge problems. We already have enough issues with desktop icons not remembering their positions and this would make it worse. No can do, sorry.