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📝 FancyZones 'Window Snap' to another window's size
What is the expected behavior of the proposed feature? What is the scenario this would be used?
While dragging a window and holding the shift-key to activate zones, there would be another hotkey (ex: right click) that would allow you to hover over another currently active window and snap to it's size/shape.
Extra fancy:
Could also snap to it's size/shape & position. Or snap to size/shape & position with a small jitter in position to make it cascaded with the first window.
Use case num 1: Custom windows, certain apps are unique for their usage and typically have different desirable dimensions that don't look as good in the usual 16:9 or 4:3 or 9:8 (half screen). Typically most fancyzones are probably designed for common apps such as text editors, web browsers, file explorer, and etc. But a few examples of uniquely shaped apps are the calculator, widgets, terminals, system hardware monitors, etc. When I resize a window to a special shape (ex: skinny vertical) then it may be useful to open another window, shift+drag+rightclick to shape this new window to this unique shape based on the shape of an already open window.
Use case num 2: Cascaded windows with custom size. I'll use myself as an example. I was editing a PowerPoint and using a handful of old custom PowerPoints to grab old graphics from (stacked on a second monitor for reference). These windows had a unique aspect ratio and I wanted to drag and resize each new one I opened to the similar size/shape of the other PowerPoint windows. Thus I could have them neatly organized on a second monitor, all with the ideal aspect ratio. This unique aspect ratio did not match my regular template that is designed for 4:3 16:9 etc common ratio windows.
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