Compiz zoom scary, enabled by default in Karmic RC

[John Dong]

On Oct 25, 2009, at 4:16 PM, Jordan Mantha wrote:
>
>
> I've accidentally hit this zoom thing many many more times than I ever
> accidentally hit the dreaded Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. I've never figured  
> out a good
> way to get out of it other than to reboot my computer so the effect  
> was about
> the same. I'd be all for some sort of "get me out of here" button  
> when it's
> first activated.
>
> -Jordan


Totally agreed, Jordan,


Compiz zooming is one of the most powerful features (along with  
translucency and Expose-like window tiling) that 3D compositing  
affords, but at the same time, a user unknowingly triggering it could  
be a usability issue. It wouldn't be a bad idea to quickly pop up a  
translucency overlay that tells the user how to get out of it, not  
unlike VMWare Fusion's fullscreen momentarily overlays "Press A-B-C to  
exit fullscreen mode"