Bug 541713

Summary:	Preference to disable of pinch-to-zoom
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Joshua Goldberg <joshgold>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Platform-UI-Inbox <Platform-UI-Inbox>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	josh.seidel, mhatem
Version:	4.8
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Macintosh
OS:	Mac OS X
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Description Joshua Goldberg

2018-11-29 10:59:35 EST

I often trigger pinch-to-zoom accidentally and find it a very distracting interruption. Is there a way to disable it?

Even after practicing the gesture to recover the zoom, I still have a hard time remembering where I was focused before I was zoomed in and out, and find myself searching around to regain my place.

(An aside for perhaps another ticket, though I don't have a solution: 

The "recovery" gesture (45-degree rotation to restore the earlier zoom level) is also a little strange and I don't think it's plausibly discoverable when zoom "happens" to a new user.  I only found out about it in the "what's new" for Neon, which is itself the only documentation I was able to find, and this was after weeks of occasionally getting stung and recovering manually (to approximately the same zoom) with cmd-+/-.)

Comment 1 Joshua Goldberg

2018-11-29 11:03:27 EST

I asked about this on stackoverflow, and user greg-449 commented: "Looking at the source code (initializeZoomGestures in org.eclipse.ui.texteditor.AbstractTextEditor) there does not appear to be any way to disable this."

Comment 2 Consistent

2021-03-30 09:40:48 EDT

+1

Comment 3 Consistent

2021-03-30 09:46:41 EDT

One workaround is to disable the "pinch to zoom" feature in OSX globally in the Trackpad Settings.