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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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Yar_St

How on earth has this not been fixed yet? We need to make more noise - I think everyone here should send Customer Support a complaint, maybe this will get more attention. I know I’m going to.

Will be asking them to just add a preference option of “w/ or w/o the CMD button” which can be defined by the user. That’s it, 1 hour of code work at max, 100% of users are happy. UX is prime. So simple. Yet it’s been 1.5 years and nothing has changed yet. Figma are freaking slow with so many questionable UX decision it’s beyond me 🤦‍♂️

shannon.towell

Just found a workaround, that has saved me from returning the thing! In Logi Options+ for the scroll wheel, give it a keyboard shortcut just for control. Then as you scroll it zooms in like the 2s did, or old options!

Koen_Koopman

This is the only reason i don’t want to use figma 😅
It’s so awkward.

Thomas40

please fix this, Figma. This is a common way to work for people who have used something like Sketchup too. Make it a user preference and let the user choose what they want the scroll wheel to do.

kamalx

I love how figma navigation works by default (currently using it on Windows) but it would be nice to have feature to be able to set what the mouse scroll does to the canvas (zoom or pan) - I am used to having this user configurable setting in other tools I use and I flip that switch based on what’s convenient to me at the time of working.

On a side-note, from the nice shortcuts that @clara pointed to in this thread, I seem to be able to use only [Shift + 1]. The z and spacebar to zoom and pan respectively do nothing for me except change the mouse cursor image (chrome on windows). The panning works fine with the hand tool [H] selected, but not with [spacebar] pressed. Reporting in case that’s useful info to the development team in this context.

Sinan_Arkonac

Didn’t realize people just suffer through this. Getting a multi-touch trackpad (Apple Magic Pad) has been an essential part of my setup for many years.

Florence_Lam

FIGMA, please add this feature or allow us to toggle between scrolling up/down and zooming in/out with the mouse only. It could also be a feature that we can choose from the preference tab. We have been talking about this for years.