[FancyZones] Bring overlapping canvas zone to front on mouseover / hover / hotkey #17049
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Idea-Enhancement
New feature or request on an existing product
Needs-Triage
For issues raised to be triaged and prioritized by internal Microsoft teams
Product-FancyZones
Refers to the FancyZones PowerToy
Description of the new feature / enhancement
When using canvas layouts, it's possible to have overlapping Fancy Zones, but it would be nice if you could bring another zone to the front just by hovering over its region (could include a delay period to avoid accidental behavior, if desired.)
Alternatively, a hotkey to send the current zone to the background temporarily might serve the same purpose.
Potentially, having a particular zone always go to the background when its apps are not focused might also be useful.
Scenario when this would be used?
As an example, I have a code editor that takes up more than 50% of my horizontal screen space and 100% of the vertical. On the remaining <50% of the horizontal space I have Slack/other chat that I monitor, but is partially obscured by my code editor's overlapping zone. Currently, if I want to see the obscured areas of the chat window, I have to click in the chat client, then click back in my code editor (or alt-tab, etc.) It would be nice if I could just mouse over the general region of the other zone and have it automatically gain focus from the perspective of Fancy Zones, without having to click inside the client to give it focus.
Alternatively, if there was a hotkey option to send the current zone temporarily to the background and bring others forward, it would serve the same purpose.
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