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Zoom without ctrl

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February 10, 2021
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On PC i want to explore figma document with only mouse, but i can’t zoom in/out without keyboard - I have to hold down the Ctrl with the other hand. On a Mac, there is no problem: gestures on the touchpad make zooming convenient.

At the moment we can scroll through a document by dragging it with the left mouse button or by scrolling horizontally, but to scroll horizontally (which is also often used as vertical scrolling) you have to hold down Shift, which is rather illogical for a map-like interface.

Can you add a switch like the existing “Invert Zoom Direction”? That would solve my problem.

This feature was already requested in 2017: https://spectrum.chat/figma/feature-requests/zoom-with-mouse-wheel~04d1784d-827c-4363-9404-ffddc91bcfef

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Vlad

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Iya

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I totally agree. This is purely discriminative.

Matthew_Schwartz

Besides letting people turn off the keyboard key combo, I would also like there to be an option to change the key from CTRL to ALT if I want. Because switching from Photoshop (Alt + Zoom) to Figma (Ctrl + zoom) is driving me insane

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Raptor_Swire

At this point, I am pretty sure Adobe bought Figma just to leave it to die and kill this competitor.
Adobe doesn’t give a crap. Only thing they care about is your money. Don’t support this business!
…support better software, like Affinity

Erik12

A toggle for scrolling with mouse without ctrl/cmd would be sweet. Since all I do all day long is zooming in and out of documents.

Iya

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it feels like a very easy implementation and I just can’t see see a reason not to do it.

Do 99% Figma users don’t use mouse to work?

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Jon-E

This thread clearly shows there is a decently sizable cohort to validate implementing this feature. Not to mention, other canvas based apps reinforce this standard over and over again.

I ended up throwing in the towel and getting a better mouse (Logitech MX Master 3S) with extra, configurable dials/buttons. The vertical thumb wheel on the 3S now does the trick for me, and it’s a damn solid mouse, but it’s laughable I had to upgrade to achieve a standard interaction.

Iya

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Thanks a lor for Sharing Jon.
It’s really great to know that you are able to find this workaround.

But I would still love to see the mouse wheel zoom as an optional feature in Figma and FigJam, especially FigJam.

Would guess this is the laziness with high market share. They are not listening, they don’t care and they are not interested in making changes.

Iya

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Again, zooming in/out with mouse scroll feels like such a natural and reasonable thing to do.
Would like to know why this is never sparked any response from the developers/ company.

It is also one of the main reasons I sometimes even prefer windows whiteboard than FigJam. lol

Iya

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That works too. CTRL zoom is just awkward.
But personal preference is mouse scroll zoom