People like me, with poor eyesight, found a safe heaven in compiz enhanced zoom desktop on Gnome 2. It was customizable, the movements and zoom were smooth and it could be controlled using both keyboard and mouse shortcuts. Many of us felt completely abandoned after the release of Unity in 2010 (yes it had zoom but it was severely limited, see my summary comment and reference to old bug reports here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/762699/comments/18 )
The zoom functionality in Gnome 3 does update the mouse position nearly as often as it should. This results in choppy movements when zoomed in and makes it very hard to read text. It also lacks the ability to zoom in and out using the scroll wheel of the mouse. I'll gladly help out to the best of my ability in order to be able to come home to Ubuntu after exile in KDE-land. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-shell in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1691675 Title: Gnome Shell desktop zoom judders and performs badly Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Gnome Shell desktop zoom judders and performs badly ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10 Package: gnome-shell 3.24.2-0ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.10.0-20.22-generic 4.10.8 Uname: Linux 4.10.0-20-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.5-0ubuntu3 Architecture: amd64 Date: Thu May 18 15:22:50 2017 DisplayManager: lightdm GsettingsChanges: b'org.gnome.shell' b'app-picker-view' b'uint32 1' b'org.gnome.shell' b'favorite-apps' b"['firefox.desktop', 'org.gnome.Terminal.desktop', 'rhythmbox.desktop', 'org.gnome.Nautilus.desktop', 'org.gnome.Software.desktop', 'yelp.desktop']" b'org.gnome.desktop.interface' b'gtk-im-module' b"'gtk-im-context-simple'" b'org.gnome.desktop.interface' b'scaling-factor' b'uint32 1' InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-05-03 (15 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha amd64 (20170502) SourcePackage: gnome-shell UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1691675/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
