> What's the use case for being able to zoom out of my desktop that far [...] Just to hijack that a little, having a huge workspace and navigating it by pannin

> What's the use case for being able to zoom out of my desktop that far [...] Just to hijack that a little, having a huge workspace and navigating it by panning and zooming out is quite a powerful idea. Back in the day I had neat multidisplay setup that gave me 4960x1600 pixels, I used to remote into that from a small ibm/lenovo thinkad with 1024x768 screen resolution. The default behavior of changing the remote resolution to match the screen remoting from was a complete disaster. 30 windows being scrambled and resized was a nightmare and left a mess unlike no other. But, with the right options you could retain the original size and just get a view onto that massive workspace. And with the little thinkpad-nub and the "third" mouse-button you can seamlessly pan through that. It was a fantastic experience and a great way to utilize that small screen. Later I learned that there was some really old (late 80s maybe?) window-manager that actually behaved much liked that by design, and that idea is something I've kind of missed ever since. So that was something I discovered by mistake, by using something that the designers probably didn't intend to be used that way (without the thinkpad-nub, having a workspace smaller than the remote is usually a quite painful experience). A 3d-accelerated window-manager that encourage playing around could be used to find such neat and very useful workflows.