microsoft/Terminal

Add a fluent animation for pane zooming

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#7,216 opened on Aug 7, 2020

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Related to #1001, and a follow-up to #6989

It'd also be nice if we had an animation. Idk if you want that to be a part of #1001 though. If you do punt on the animation, could you just add a note on that issue (or open a new one).

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Study the pane zooming functionality in the terminal codebase. Look at existing animations and how they are implemented. Focus on the related issues #1001 and #6989 for context. Implement a smooth transition for pane zoom using appropriate rendering APIs.
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