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FancyZones On the fly zone editing #10293

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buergi opened this issue Mar 17, 2021 · 2 comments
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FancyZones On the fly zone editing #10293

buergi opened this issue Mar 17, 2021 · 2 comments
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Product-FancyZones Refers to the FancyZones PowerToy Resolution-Duplicate There's another issue on the tracker that's pretty much the same thing.

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buergi commented Mar 17, 2021

The only feature I miss dearly is on the fly zone editing.
I often rearange my windows and find the current way of editing the zone layout very cumbersome:
Pressing the Layout Editor Shortcut, waiting 3s for the editor to open, change the zones, move all windows into the changed zones.

My desired workflow would be

Pressing and holding some key or key combination (maybe Windows+Shift or just Shift for more than 500 ms)
An overlay should be painted over all current windows showing all zones, similar to the one displayed when moving a window. However, the difference should be that it would allow modifiying the Zones, just as in the FanzyZones Editor.
With the crucial difference, that all windows which are currently in the changed zones gets immediately resized to fit the new zone dimensions.
After releasing the button the overlay should vanish and the changed layout should be active.

This would allow to easily create/merge new zones while working and also reduce the width of, lets say, a "sidebar zone" when I need more space in the screen center.

What do you think?


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@buergi buergi added the Needs-Triage For issues raised to be triaged and prioritized by internal Microsoft teams label Mar 17, 2021
@enricogior enricogior added Product-FancyZones Refers to the FancyZones PowerToy Resolution-Duplicate There's another issue on the tracker that's pretty much the same thing. and removed Needs-Triage For issues raised to be triaged and prioritized by internal Microsoft teams labels Mar 17, 2021
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@buergi

move all windows into the changed zones.
With the crucial difference, that all windows which are currently in the changed zones gets immediately resized to fit the new zone dimensions.

The automatic window resizing to the updated zones is already available:
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For a shortcut to enter the FZ editor in edit more for the current layout, the feature request is tracked by #3928

@crutkas crutkas closed this as completed Mar 17, 2021
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buergi commented Mar 18, 2021

I know this feature, but this is only partially what I proposed. But the referenced FR is close enough to continue the discussion there. Thank you for bringing this up.

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