https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=514739

--- Comment #9 from Alex Folland <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to wbqq from comment #7)
> (In reply to Alex Folland from comment #5)
> im not a ux expert but i'm not sure how useful a "resetting zoom after a
> delay" could really be. neither having your zoom level suddenly reset while
> reading something, nor waiting for timeout instead of manually quitting zoom
> effect sounds ideal. 
> 
> (having some visual indicator for "you are currently zoomed in" kinda makes
> sense though. maybe a little magnifier glass icon in the corner, that
> teleports to the other corner if the mouse cursor is close, or something)

It would be useful (In reply to Ritchie Frodomar from comment #8)
> It's worth noting that KWin doesn't save every zoom change to disk. Before
> Plasma 6.5 it only saved the setting when the effect is turned off. (Which
> happens when you log out, because KWin exits).
> 
> In 6.5, zooming in or out just schedules a settings update. It will only
> happen one second after you stop activating the shortcut. If you use the
> scroll wheel to zoom in and out, it should only ever hit the disk once.

As a user who now knows the system is usable zoomed and some people use it that
way at all times, I would expect it to only save to disk at logout and never
any other time.  Resetting to the preferred zoom level is only a problem for an
extreme minority of users and having all users impacted by disk writes just for
that extreme minority doesn't make much sense to me.  That being said, it's a
minor disk operation on orders of magnitude less impactful than the constant
journal logging that's happening anyway, so my opinion is not strong here.

> im not a ux expert but i'm not sure how useful a "resetting zoom after a 
> delay" could really be. neither having your zoom level suddenly reset while 
> reading something, nor waiting for timeout instead of manually quitting zoom 
> effect sounds ideal.

It would have been useful for me when I didn't realize my PC wasn't frozen and
thought my GPU was messed up.  It also would have been useful when I didn't
remember the shortcut after not having used Plasma for a couple years and
having accidentally hit it, which happened once.  I understand now some people
like to use zoom for more than a few seconds at a time though, and I'm just not
one of those people, so I take it back.  Resetting on login would help me
though.

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