microsoft / microsoft/PowerToys

[FancyZones] Restore old "Hold a non-primary mouse button to activate zones while dragging" as a separate option

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Idea-Enhancement Needs-Triage Product-FancyZones
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Description

### Description of the new feature / enhancement

**Hold** non-primary mouse button instead of **Toggle**.

### Scenario when this would be used?

It is the same as Toggle, but only activates when needed.
I find that my Outlook crashes when I drag a PDF to a draft email while the FancyZones is toggled on. The Hold to activate mitigated this issue.

### Supporting information

The hold to activate the zones used to be a feature.

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

Research direction

No files or tests are named. Start by locating FancyZones' current Toggle activation setting and the drag activation path; done means a separate Hold option activates zones only while the non-primary mouse button is held, without requiring Toggle.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
c
Domain
desktop
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
38/100

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