Solved Pinch Zooming feature to be enabled via Touchpad
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Thanks a lot @Jawadd1 for posting this one.
This (upscaling and not zooming) is a very frustrating thing & the only reason why i have to forcefully use edge etc sometimes. ..
... when dealing with images' containing pages (as they require frequent zooming in and out). But currently (on upscaling elements), the pages' images stay the same or even worse decrease in size (all this happens with a niiice jitter). And this totally overthrows me all the time. when i zoom, i want my whole page to zoom as one single piece.
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i recently updated to windows 10 20h2, and just noticed today that this feature is implemented in windows itself.
It feels so nice to be able to pinch to zoom in vivaldi. sooo helpful everywhere from wikipedia, to gitlab, to twitter - basically most all browser places
- this will probably reduce the priority of implementing this in-house in vivaldi even further lol/sigh
- also, this will require the device to be running on windows version/linux distro having this option, and having a touchpad (or a way to simulate that).
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Update: i just tested on a less frequently updated system: Windows 10 1803 and Vivaldi 3.1.1929.45 . It has this "pinch to zoom" option in windows settings too. But vivaldi there still scaled on touchpad pinching.
So, I aint sure which fixed the thing - the windows update to 20H2 or the vivaldi update to 3.5.2115.87 or both lol:
- If windows update fixed the thing - that would likely mean that it added support for more apps.
- If vivaldi update fixed the thing - that'd likely mean that it added support for using that windows pinch to zoom gesture.
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Hello, I stumbled upon this thread because I was also having the same issue where a touchscreen pinch would zoom but a trackpad pinch would act the same as a Ctrl + or Ctrl -. I also have Windows version 20H2 and at this point, Vivaldi version 3.8. The "Pinch to Zoom" was already checked in the Windows settings.
However, after messing around in Vivaldi's settings, I have found a solution. I went to Settings => Webpages => scrolled down to Default Webpage Zoom. I saw that the "Use Ctrl + Scroll to Zoom Page" was checked. After unchecking, pinching with the trackpad now zooms like in other browsers! It might be a good idea to keep this option unchecked by default when Vivaldi is installed.
Hopefully this helps anyone coming here!
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@rangumi well, thank you man
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@rangumi said in Pinch Zooming feature to be enabled via Touchpad:
Uncheck "Use Ctrl + Scroll to Zoom Page" ...
hey, i just checked my vivaldi settings, and it was unchecked there. nice. thanks for reporting/documenting ur findings here
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allow me to vent the stuff hereTo be honest, I'd love if Vivaldi fixed that "bug" as it kind of annoying.
Sometime I like to use mouse, but when comes to zooming while the option is ticked off, it won't zoom.
Although the competitor, cough cough Google Chrome cough cough, does both, pinch zooming for trackpad (and don't increase the scale of the page) and literal zooming while using
ctrl+ Scroll on mouse.It's kinda silly if you ask me, albeit I knew well if the team decided to use their own UI/UX for Vivaldi.
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Yo how is this still not fixed? This was opened literally 3 years ago.
Your browser behaviour is objectively wrong.
Pinch to zoom should do viewport scaling.
Ctrl+Scroll should do element scaling.
That is standard behaviour in literally every browser.
You seem to have forgotten that Vivaldi (and other such competitors) are competitors - people don't start out on your browsers!
If your settings and features are actual regressions in functionality, we ain't gonna stay.
Put this setting back to the default handling of the display engine.
As it is, we have to choose between viewport and element scaling, which is stupid, and is a reason that I'm not gonna stay on Vivaldi.
I use both functions in tandem every day.
Literally makes no sense to have disabled this.
At least give the options for it to be configured by the user!
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I also don't understand why this behavior hasn't changed in years. I mean, why do I have to give up on Ctrl + Scroll to get Pinch to Zoom. I more often than not use Ctrl+ +/- but still, the way things are you have to give up on one function to get the other.
Also, we should probably create ANOTHER thread about this issue. Since this one is marked as [SOLVED] I guess that nobody from Vivaldi will ever look into it.
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@Rangumi Thank you so much I genuinely appreciate it because I used to use this feature all the time in Brave, and now I finally can in Vivaldi as well. Made an account just to thank you haha, I usually avoid registering for too many things with my email.
