Migrate zoom options from Settings > Desktop Effects to dedicated section under accessibility settings

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I am visually impaired and i rely mostly on zoom. So, My first instinct whenever is install a new distro or desktop environment is to search for zoom and in KDE when i search for zoom it yeilds no results i had to dig in for atleast a day to locate the options listed under desktop effects.
A few years back i wanted to use KDE and at the time i was very new to the linux world and I did what my instincts told me to do and searched for zoom and looked for it under accessiblity. Since, i couldnt find zoom I assumed that KDE does not offer support for accessebility and never looked back on KDE.
This time however I was determined and I had to ask for help from someone.
Thiss simple change could boost up user experience and accessiblity .

(Meanwhile, i have noticed a few bugs in zoom and have posted here in the support forum.)

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Unfortunately, this isn’t anything the Manjaro developers can change. The location of the zoom effects settings under the Desktop Effects section of Plasma’s System Settings is a decision by the KDE developers upstream. Manjaro has nothing to do with that.

:man_shrugging:

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I understand. Can you help me though with how i could talk about this with the KDE developers

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Well, you can file a feature request or bug report at bugs.kde.org. That’s the only way I know of to get their attention. :man_shrugging:

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You open System Settings and make the search for Zoom or zoom? You should get some like this:

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And then you click on Desktop effects and look for zoom again (yeah, i know is a bit frustrating)

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And activate it, set your preferred keyboard shortcut for it, and apply then start using it.

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Thankyou, I did figure it out. I was saying that it makes more sense to place zoom under accessiblity as it would make it much easier for new comers to get started.

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It might, but the way the X-KDE-Library are build, that would need a whole lot of different work and split them because the Effects use the kcm_kwin_effects Library and Accessibility uses kcm_access libraries.

The only thing can be done is create for example a file /usr/share/kservices5/access_zoom.desktop
with this content in it (can change the icon to something else)

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Activate Zoom Effect
Icon=preferences-desktop-accessibility
Type=Service
X-KDE-ServiceTypes=KCModule
X-DocPath=kcontrol/kwineffects/index.html
X-KDE-Library=kcm_kwin_effects
X-KDE-PluginKeyword=zoom
X-KDE-ParentApp=kcontrol
X-KDE-System-Settings-Category=zoom
X-KDE-System-Settings-Parent-Category=personalization
X-KDE-Keywords=zoom

And have that entry appear in Personalization, but will not appear in Accessibility because that uses a different kcm library.

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