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fix(desktop): trackpad pinch magnifies the window - #27937
A trackpad pinch does nothing in the desktop app. Electron turns off Chromium's pinch-zoom by default, and the zoom-changed handler from #21200 only receives mouse-wheel ticks, so a pinch reaches neither path. #21200 records this gap: "Not covered: touchpad pinch."
To reproduce: open the desktop app and pinch on a trackpad. Nothing changes.
Change
The main window restores Chromium's visual pinch-zoom, limited to 100-500%, on dom-ready. Limits set before the document commits are reset, so they are applied on each load. A pinch magnifies on the compositor, like a photo. Nothing relayouts or re-wraps, scrolling pans the magnified view, and pinching back returns to 100%. Ctrl+= and Ctrl+- keep the existing reflowing zoom.
Reset: Actual Size collapses the limits and restores them, which snaps a magnified window back to 100%.
Elements with their own pinch: expanded images keep claiming the pinch, because element-level wheel listeners stay cancelable while the window can magnify.
Native coordinates: native context menus and the snap-shot animation go through toVisualViewportPoint and toVisualViewportRect. clientX and getBoundingClientRect are layout-viewport coordinates, and they stop matching what is drawn once the window is magnified and panned.
Scope and approval
There is no explicit maintainer approval for this behavior, so this may need a product decision before review.
This PR avoids zoom steps: pinch does not change the persisted zoom level at all. That direction still needs a maintainer's call.
Verification
Before and after run the same synthesized pinch on the dev desktop build, on an empty data directory with a throwaway thread. The "before" run uses DesktopWindow.ts from main.
visualViewport.scale after pinch
Page zoom
Layout width
Before
1
1
1135
After
2.2, then 1 after pinching out
1
1135
Recordings: before, after. The "after" capture reported 61 fps of screen damage.
Before:
After (pinch in, pan, pinch back):
Checked on the Linux dev build before the latest rebase:
Magnification survives a reload.
An expanded image claims the pinch: the image grows and the window scale stays 1.
Horizontal scroll pans the magnified view.
There are no root resizes during a pinch.
vp run check:changed passes after the rebase. The Actual Size reset has a unit test that fails without the change. Menu accelerators can't be reached over CDP, so there is no runtime test of Ctrl+0. I did observe the underlying snap to 100% when the limits collapse.
Not checked:
A physical trackpad. Every pinch here came from CDP's Input.synthesizePinchGesture.
macOS and Windows.
A real Ctrl+mouse-wheel, including hi-res wheels, while pinch-zoom is enabled.
Window dragging and header buttons while magnified. All platforms use hidden titlebars, so drag regions may not follow the magnified view.
A pinch over the browser preview pane, which may magnify the whole app instead of the page.
Known concerns:
Smoothness on the dev build was inconsistent. Main-thread requestAnimationFrame p95 ranged from 8 ms to 33 ms, with a worst frame of 91 ms. One earlier recording showed about 50 changed frames per second during pinches, with gaps up to about 250 ms. I did not establish the cause.
One pinch failed to magnify right after a reset pinch. It did not reproduce in 8+ later attempts.
.catch(() => undefined) on the limit calls follows the file's existing pattern, but it hides failures.
A trackpad pinch did nothing in the desktop app. Electron turns off
Chromium's pinch-zoom, and the zoom-changed handler from pingdotgg#21200 only
receives mouse-wheel ticks, so pinch never reached either path.
The main window now restores Chromium's visual pinch-zoom (100-500%) on
each load. A pinch magnifies the window on the compositor without
relayout, and content with its own wheel listener, such as expanded
images, still claims the pinch. Actual Size also returns a magnified
window to 100%. Native context menus and the snap-shot animation map
their coordinates through the visual viewport so they stay under the
pointer while magnified.
Written by Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code (T3 Code).
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🟢 Lowlib/snapShotAnimation.ts:121
During pinch zoom, viewportFrame is scaled into visual-viewport coordinates but borderWidth and cornerRadius remain unscaled CSS pixels, so the arrival card’s border and corners do not match the target (at 2×, an 8px radius stays 8px instead of 16px). Scale both appearance dimensions by the same pinch factor used by toVisualViewportRect.
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During pinch zoom, `viewportFrame` is scaled into visual-viewport coordinates but `borderWidth` and `cornerRadius` remain unscaled CSS pixels, so the arrival card’s border and corners do not match the target (at 2×, an 8px radius stays 8px instead of 16px). Scale both appearance dimensions by the same pinch factor used by `toVisualViewportRect`.
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Review comments at @apps/web/src/lib/snapShotAnimation.ts:
- Line 121: Update the snapshot style construction near toVisualViewportRect so
borderWidth and cornerRadius are multiplied by the same visual viewport scale
used to transform viewportFrame, defaulting to 1 when no visual viewport scale
is available. Preserve the existing finite-value fallbacks before scaling.
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apps/desktop/src/window/DesktopWindow.test.ts
apps/desktop/src/window/DesktopWindow.ts
apps/web/src/lib/snapShotAnimation.ts
apps/web/src/lib/visualViewport.ts
apps/web/src/localApi.ts
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Desktop windows now allow pinch magnification from 1× to 5× and reset it when app zoom resets. Web code converts coordinates and rectangle dimensions using visual viewport offsets and scale before sending context-menu positions and snapshot-animation destinations to the desktop bridge.
New helpers convert points and rectangles using visual viewport offsets and scale. Snapshot-animation destinations and supplied context-menu positions use the conversions.
Snapshot animations may have undersized borders and corners while pinch-magnified; the localized fix should be completed as follow-up.
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The zoom test covers the Actual Size reset but does not invoke the dom-ready listener that enables pinch magnification on load. Extend this test to cover both paths.
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Review comment at @apps/desktop/src/window/DesktopWindow.test.ts around lines
618 - 628:
Extend the zoom test around `DesktopWindow` initialization to invoke the
registered `dom-ready` listener and await its initial pinch-magnification setup.
Preserve the existing Actual Size reset assertions, awaiting the corresponding
later `setVisualZoomLevelLimits` result and asserting the additional initial
pinch limits call.
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Review comments at @apps/web/src/lib/snapShotAnimation.ts:
- Line 121: Update the snapshot style construction near toVisualViewportRect so
borderWidth and cornerRadius are multiplied by the same visual viewport scale
used to transform viewportFrame, defaulting to 1 when no visual viewport scale
is available. Preserve the existing finite-value fallbacks before scaling.
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Review comments at @apps/desktop/src/window/DesktopWindow.test.ts:
- Around line 618-628: Extend the zoom test around `DesktopWindow`
initialization to invoke the registered `dom-ready` listener and await its
initial pinch-magnification setup. Preserve the existing Actual Size reset
assertions, awaiting the corresponding later `setVisualZoomLevelLimits` result
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Supported by static analysis
Script executed:
git diff -- apps/web/src/lib/snapShotAnimation.ts apps/web/src/lib/visualViewport.ts apps/desktop/src/ipc/methods/snapShot.ts
sed -n '1,180p' apps/web/src/lib/snapShotAnimation.ts
sed -n '1,220p' apps/desktop/src/ipc/methods/snapShot.ts
rg -n "setSnapShotAnimationDestination|borderWidth|cornerRadius|viewportFrame" apps/web apps/desktop
Repository: pingdotgg/t3code
Length of output: 22590
Script executed:
set -o pipefail
printf'%s\n''--- visual viewport helper and callers ---'
sed -n '1,220p' apps/web/src/lib/visualViewport.ts
rg -n -F --glob '*.ts' --glob '*.tsx' -e 'toVisualViewportRect' -e 'visualViewport.scale' -e 'visualViewport' apps/web/src apps/desktop/src
printf'%s\n''--- desktop transition destination flow ---'
sed -n '130,205p' apps/desktop/src/snapShot/SnapShotTransition.ts
sed -n '370,420p' apps/desktop/src/snapShot/SnapShotTransition.ts
printf'%s\n''--- relevant contract declaration ---'
rg -n -F --glob '*.{ts,tsx}''DesktopSnapShotAnimationDestination' packages apps | head -40
Repository: pingdotgg/t3code
Length of output: 11199
Scale the snapshot style dimensions too.
When the visual viewport is magnified, toVisualViewportRect scales only viewportFrame. Scale borderWidth and cornerRadius by the same visual viewport scale before sending them.
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Review comment at @apps/web/src/lib/snapShotAnimation.ts at line 121:
Update the snapshot style construction near toVisualViewportRect so borderWidth
and cornerRadius are multiplied by the same visual viewport scale used to
transform viewportFrame, defaulting to 1 when no visual viewport scale is
available. Preserve the existing finite-value fallbacks before scaling.
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Verified head d70d2256b6f45c176a796fe0ab7b8822eb908baa on this Linux Boat VM, against github/main at 54c5f25249. No source changes or pushes.
Installed with vp i, started the real dev stack, and ran the actual Electron desktop client with isolated server state. Used Playwright from the repository and the installed Chrome for the web client. Created a project pointing at the real checkout through the UI. Both desktop and web completed real Codex gpt-6.1-sol turns through the local proxy. No mocks, fixtures, replay provider, or seeded conversations.
The same CDP Input.synthesizePinchGesture with gestureSourceType: "default" gives:
A native thread context menu opened at the pointer while the window was magnified and offset. The attached image preview claimed its own pinch; closing it and removing the attachment worked.
Reload observation: the window returned to 1x on reload here, rather than retaining magnification as the description reports. A new pinch after reload worked at 2x. One immediate synthetic gesture during initial loading did not magnify; the later focused cycles above passed.
vp run check:changed 447d71d9012dd8e36af6bd8dc988af6a8d8c115a passed through blacksmith-check, including format, lint, knip, affected typechecks, 22 focused tests, and the affected React compiler checks. The explicit parent ref and a shallow fetch were needed because the remote runner starts without branch history. All 30 reported PR checks are successful.
Before, main after the pinch:
After, PR with the same conversation content and pinch:
Not verified
Physical trackpad hardware, macOS, Windows, native mobile, real Ctrl+mouse-wheel or high-resolution wheel hardware, dragging the hidden titlebar while magnified, browser-preview guest pinch, remote/relay/tunnel connections, and the native snapshot arrival animation, including its border/corner appearance. This VM uses software graphics, so these captures do not establish hardware smoothness or performance.
Electron needed the missing libsecret-1-dev system package and --password-store=basic to avoid a new-keyring password dialog. The dialog was left untouched. Uploaded images were inspected, and the 13-second uploaded video played through and supported seeking in the T3 browser.
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Problem
A trackpad pinch does nothing in the desktop app. Electron turns off Chromium's pinch-zoom by default, and the
zoom-changedhandler from #21200 only receives mouse-wheel ticks, so a pinch reaches neither path. #21200 records this gap: "Not covered: touchpad pinch."To reproduce: open the desktop app and pinch on a trackpad. Nothing changes.
Change
The main window restores Chromium's visual pinch-zoom, limited to 100-500%, on
dom-ready. Limits set before the document commits are reset, so they are applied on each load. A pinch magnifies on the compositor, like a photo. Nothing relayouts or re-wraps, scrolling pans the magnified view, and pinching back returns to 100%. Ctrl+= and Ctrl+- keep the existing reflowing zoom.toVisualViewportPointandtoVisualViewportRect.clientXandgetBoundingClientRectare layout-viewport coordinates, and they stop matching what is drawn once the window is magnified and panned.Scope and approval
There is no explicit maintainer approval for this behavior, so this may need a product decision before review.
This PR avoids zoom steps: pinch does not change the persisted zoom level at all. That direction still needs a maintainer's call.
Verification
Before and after run the same synthesized pinch on the dev desktop build, on an empty data directory with a throwaway thread. The "before" run uses
DesktopWindow.tsfrommain.visualViewport.scaleafter pinchRecordings: before, after. The "after" capture reported 61 fps of screen damage.
Before:
After (pinch in, pan, pinch back):
Checked on the Linux dev build before the latest rebase:
vp run check:changedpasses after the rebase. The Actual Size reset has a unit test that fails without the change. Menu accelerators can't be reached over CDP, so there is no runtime test of Ctrl+0. I did observe the underlying snap to 100% when the limits collapse.Not checked:
Input.synthesizePinchGesture.Known concerns:
requestAnimationFramep95 ranged from 8 ms to 33 ms, with a worst frame of 91 ms. One earlier recording showed about 50 changed frames per second during pinches, with gaps up to about 250 ms. I did not establish the cause..catch(() => undefined)on the limit calls follows the file's existing pattern, but it hides failures.Opus 5.5 via Claude Code in T3 Code.