Bug 312953

Summary:	Desktop Effects - Zoom: Have a keyboard shortcut to zoom to currently active window (like in compiz/fusion ;)
Product:	[Plasma] kwin	Reporter:	tormen
Component:	effects-window-management	Assignee:	KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	tormen
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	4.9.5
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description tormen 2013-01-09 15:28:26 UTC

A very neat function I found is the ability to maginify easily the currently active (focused) window!

This is tedious if you do it manually with the existing zoom controls -> but easily implementable with a shortcut that will have the work done for you.

Didn't invent this idea though:
Function exists like this in the compiz/fusion zoom plugin.


Reproducible: Always





Not sure but I think this could also help with this feature request here:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=227284

Comment 1 Martin Flöser 2013-01-09 15:31:58 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 227284 ***

Comment 2 tormen 2013-01-09 16:18:00 UTC

Hmmm... I don't agree with the "Resolved as Duplicate" decision:

The title of the duplicate bug:
    zoom entire window instead of a small portion
does not state what I am looking for in my newly posted feature request.

Like the author of the older feature request 227284 stated:

    "maybe by reducing the width and height of the window and then stretching to a desired size"

I understand that as:

You are in a fullscreen firefox window and what you hit the zoom keyboard shortcut ->
    The firefox window gets SMALLER << this is the reducing the width and height part
    AND (at the same time)
    the desktop zoom is zooming ONTO the window <<< this is the stretching part

And I had only suggested to add an option to add a keybaord shortcut for the /latter/ part
( zooming /onto/ a window (that is smaller than the fullscreen) )

My suggestion is very simple and easy to implement (you have the zoom, you just need to:
(a) take resize the zoom-area to the /size/ of the currently active window
(b) move the zoom-area to the position of the currently active window

I want to zoom onto a window that is somewhere on the screen,
/without/ changing the size of any window.

Comment 3 Martin Flöser 2013-01-09 16:23:35 UTC

for me the issues are close enough to be considered as a duplicate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 227284 ***