Fancy Zones: Screen Chooser Menu for Zone Editor

[incansvl]

OS: Windows 10 Pro 64bit,
PowerToys: 0.16.0

The current method of choosing which screen to set up FancyZones for in a multi-screen layout for is effectively hidden. There is no visible UI element (such as a tab chooser or pulldown menu) to even indicate that multiple screens are supported. The only hint is the option for "Show zones on all monitors while dragging a window".

Proposed technical implementation details

1. Maintain the current behaviour (the zone editor will target the monitor where the centre of the PowerTools window resides?), but have this set the DEFAULT monitor in the Zone editor when it opens.
2. Most desirable: Full multi-screen aware zone editor, with symmetric mirroring options for L/R and Up/Down screens etc.

3. Next best: In the zone editor-

• A physical screen chooser (using, say- image picker, tabs, or pulldown menu)
• An option to create a mirrored clone of the current zone layout, with either Left/Right or Top/Bottom mirroring. Pairs stay linked, editing one layout in the mirror automatiocally updates the other.

[niels9001]

@incansvl Agreed. It is actually part of @crutkas draft spec for the FancyZones editor: https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/dev/crutkas/FzEditor2Spec/doc/specs/FancyZoneEditorV2.md

[incansvl]

Thanks. Lots of good stuff in the draft I can see. It doesn't include mirror pairs, but I think something similar has been raised by multiple people, so hopefully it will be considered for inclusion.

[crutkas]

I do directly call out in. Is this what you mean by monitor pairs or is this something else?

4.1.1. FZ Editor Dialog window
Editor has selectable monitor layout that mimics Settings dialog interaction model and look/feel.

[crutkas]

i'm going to close this out at tracked in #1032 unless you comment otherwise @incansvl

[incansvl]

Sorry I don't understand this comment-

I do directly call out in.

Regarding "monitor pairs" I mean situations like this-

I have 3 monitors in a PLP setup. One monitor is rotated 90deg clockwise, and the other 90deg anticlockwise (to have the narrowest bezels next to the central screen).

If I set up a zone layout on, say screen 2 (Left) that is not symmetrical left-to-right, to achieve the same layout on screen 3, I need to have the layout flipped (mirrored) left-to-right. This is much easier to manage if the two screens are edited as one mirrored pair, rather than having to hand-edit two layouts as mirroed copies of each other, which is basically impossible without pixel-accurate layout design, and even then is a pain to do twice.

[enricogior]

Closing this since we are implementing multi-monitor support #6562