Picom: [Feature Request] Full Desktop Zoom

[BurhanDanger]

https://github.com/chjj/compton/issues/188

[rien333]

Doing this properly would be incredibly useful for visually impaired users that want to use FoSS/non-bloaty solutions. To my knowledge, no software package does desktop-zooming in a nice way (I kinda like the macOS approach), so implementing this would be of great benefit to the community as a whole and to the continuing relevance of compton.

[zezic]

To my knowledge, no software package does desktop-zooming in a nice way

Actually, Compiz can do it almost perfectly, but it's heavy and it looks harder to maintain (so may be it is considered as a "bloaty solution"), this is why I'm also want to see this feature available in Compton.

_Should we try to create a $$ bounty for this issue? Maybe some other features are also possible to be supported by bakers, like, for example, "antialiased rounded corners"._

[nkreer]

I'd like to give this a boost once more. Having a feature like compiz' ezoom would truly enhance my experience as a visually impaired linux user. Maybe I could even implement it myself, but I'd need some pointers as to where I should start looking and how exactly something like this could be handled here.

[rien333]

Maybe I could even implement it myself, but I'd need some pointers as to where I should start looking and how exactly something like this could be handled here.

@yshui

[yyny]

@nkreer See #312, which should make this significantly easier (soon)

[adamhotep]

For what it's worth, the compositor for XFCE (a part of xfwm4) can also zoom into the area under the mouse pointer using Win+mousewheel, but copying code may be tricky (xfwm4 is GPLv2 while Compiz is MIT-licensed; picom is dual-licensed as MIT/MPL).

If somebody (@zezic?) sets up a monetary bounty for this feature, I'd be happy to contribute to it.

[Antiquis]

For what it's worth, the compositor for XFCE (a part of xfwm4) can also zoom into the area under the mouse pointer using Win+mousewheel, but copying code may be tricky (xfwm4 is GPLv2 while Compiz is MIT-licensed; picom is dual-licensed as MIT/MPL).

If somebody (@zezic?) sets up a monetary bounty for this feature, I'd be happy to contribute to it.

Looks like we might FINALLY be starting to get somewhere with this! So many people have deemed full-screen desktop magnification as unnecessary / uninteresting, and it’s been an absolute nightmare for legally blind / visually impaired users with a passion for FoSS such as myself.

Let’s please get a monetary bounty setup for this! Contributing code for this is well beyond my ability, but I’d happily contribute $$ if it meant getting this feature implemented!

Thanks for sharing that update @adamhotep!