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Native gesture support (e.g. macOS trackpad pinch) in shortcuts mouse events
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Description
I'd like it if shortcuts could recognize native gestures from OSes that support them. For me I'm only concerned about macOS but I know that Windows has some gestures too, so this feature is not macOS specific. I have no experience working with Qt but I did find documentation for the QNativeGestureEvent class that specifically mentions some macOS touch sequences such as the pinch zoom. You know, this thing:
An example of how one might use these gestures:
- Pinch gesture = zoom in/out.
- "Double tap" smart zoom gesture = switch between 100% and canvas fit.
- Rotate gesture = move animation frames forward/backward.
Windows users, please chime in with what your OS supports.
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Research direction
Start with the Qt QNativeGestureEvent documentation linked in the issue and locate the shortcuts mouse-event handling. Determine which native gestures macOS and Windows expose and how the existing shortcut system receives mouse input. Done means the requested pinch, smart-zoom, and rotate gestures can be recognized and mapped to shortcut actions.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100