microsoft / microsoft/PowerToys
Grab and Move: Maximize Window with double click
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Description
Description of the new feature / enhancement
It would be really helpful, if modifier key + double click would behave identical to double clicking the title bar, i.e. maximizing/restoring the window.
Scenario when this would be used?
When a window is in fullscreen mode and moved with Grab and Move, the window size is restored (i.e. it is no longer fullscreen).
Intuitively, I pressed the activation modifier key (ALT, resp. Windows) and double clicked inside the window to maximize it. Unfortunatelly, this does not work. Now I have to move the mouse to the title bar and double click it.
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Research direction
Start by locating Grab and Move's input handling and the existing title-bar double-click behavior. Trace how the activation modifier and double-click are recognized, then make the in-window gesture produce the same maximize/restore result and verify it in fullscreen and restored-window scenarios.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- c
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 55/100