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Re: enhanced zoom bindings

 

so miss that feature.
as long as it uses the mousewheel, any key combo to start it is ok with me.

> Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 09:24:49 +0000
> From: alanbell@xxxxxxxxxx
> To: unity-design@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Unity-design] enhanced zoom bindings
> 
> We now ship compiz enhanced zoom enabled, but with no keyboard or mouse 
> bindings. I think this is possibly the single best feature that the 
> Ubuntu desktop has over other operating systems so I would like to make 
> it easier to use for more people.
> 
> Right now I use super+button4 to zoom in and super+button5 to zoom out. 
> So I hold super and roll the mousewheel to magnify the screen at any 
> time. I also disable the overlay hint thing because it gets in the way, 
> but if someone is going to fix that so if you hold super and do 
> something else it doesn't get in the way that would be great too.
> 
> I would like to get the super+button4/5 bindings in by default (this is 
> just a simple change to /usr/share/compiz/ezoom.xml to add a couple of 
> lines like: <default>&lt;Super&gt;Button4</default>)
> 
> what do you think?
> 
> Alan.
> 
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