Zoom/Unzoom a window

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Zoom/Unzoom in the traditional sense. Not full screen. Apparently KM7 (I’m on 6) is inconsistent, calling “full screen” “zoom”.

Zoom on the Windows menu toggles between two states:

  1. the dimensions you have described by dragging
  2. maximum size, which, I think, is the full height of the screen up to the menu bar (not the same as “full screen”) and in almost all applications, the full width of the screen, but is sometimes a more natural width

“Full Screen” on the View menu is something else entirely. So is the Zoom on the Windows menu.

I can easily assign a keystroke to the Window menu’s Zoom item, but that leaves me with a toggle, whereas I want to specify which zoom I want – (1) or (2).

I consider the Window menu Zoom to be a UI mistake in two ways:

  • It duplicates a name used on the View menu of many (all?) applications.
  • It doesn’t show by the presence or absence of a checkmark which state the window is in, the way most toggles in most applications do.