Canvas: Add option to use scrollwheel for Zooming In/Out

Use case or problem

While the scrollwheel is often used to scroll a document up and down I personally find it more natural to use it for zoom when it comes to more visual media. I often find myself rolling the wheel to get closer only to have the thing I want to see go out of view.

An option to swap the functionalities would be great and would allow everyone pick their preferred style.

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Make it at least optional, so you can change it in the settings.

The problem is that it’s so uncomfortable to quickly navigate the canvas with just the mouse, I have to use the keyboard. If the scaling will be on the mouse wheel without pressing the additional keys, navigation will be faster and more convenient.

Also, this control creates a conflict with the graph, because there the navigation is different.

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I totaly agree. I think it should even be standard for canvas to zoom with the mouse wheel since it makes navigating the 2d area a lot more easy. I use a lot of nodebased software on a daily base and they all use the mousewheel to zoom.

Here are a few examples:

  • Unreal Engine
  • Houdini
  • Blender
  • Adobe Designer
  • PureRef
  • Miro
  • Yed

And for the few that might find the vertical scrolling usefull this then could be hidden behind the +CTRL.

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Would be amazing. Often while thinking I would like to navigate the canvas just with the mouse. Of the 5 mouse inputs 1 is used for selecting, 4 for panning and none for zooming. Not a very good use of its capabilities.
(1. Scrollwheel Up
2. Scrollwheel Down
3. Middle Mouse Button
4. Right Mouse Button) → Are all used for panning

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Creating a new account just to +1 this. As a new user, this is the one usability issue that annoys me the most. It is the one big but I’ll have to add anytime I want to recommend obsidian

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+1, very useful

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I’d also like to request this feature!

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+1, This feature will be extreamly helpful for canvas navigation.

this was implemented in 1.1.11+.

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