Support ability to configure/place independent "activation zones" in FancyZones

[ccs19]

Description of the new feature / enhancement

I would like to see support for small "activation zones" representing a larger zone that can be manually placed during layout configuration. This is a crude drawing showing what this might look like:

The black box is the desktop. The blue outlines are the configured zones. The red boxes are what the user would actually see on the desktop when dragging a window around. These are the zone activation areas. The user would have to drag their window to the smaller zone, and then it would resize and fit into the blue area.

Scenario when this would be used?

This would allow a user to disable hotkey activation of zone snapping and still have some freedom to manually place windows even if the entire display is filled with zones. In the current implementation, if a user has zones filling all usable space and disables hotkey activation, it's near impossible to manually place a window without having it snap to a zone.

This also allows more complex overlapping zones while still keeping most of the usability of the desktop without needing any hotkeys. If the activation area is independent of the zone, a user could configure multiple "layouts" in the same layout with overlapping zones.

Ideally, the zones would be able to be "named" to make it clear what area does what. Building on the example before, this would allow configuration of something like this, splitting the right side of the screen to allow optionally using the full right side or the top/bottom halves.

Here, I could drop my window onto the "Full" activation area and it would fill the brown colored zone. If I drop it in the yellow "Top" area, it filles the yellow zone in the top right. Same with the green zone which would fill the "Bottom" area.

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[similar-issues-ai]

We've found some similar issues:

• Separate snap zone from activation zone. Pic included #15230 , similarity score: 83%

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[ccs19]

I see the other issue is quite similar, if not identical. The issue was closed by the one who opened it, but it's been nearly three years, so if this is a hard "no" feel free to close, though I'm curious if opinions have changed. This feature works very nicely especially with developers using fairly simple layouts on ultrawide screens.

I use a similar program on my MacOS dev machine that has the feature, and it allows very quick window placement with no hotkeys. It doesn't even necessarily need to be a default, but could be an optional way to configure a layout.