Yep, I just tested gnome shell and it's awesome. The zoom is just as you
described and it even have an option so that the window magnifier its self
follows the mouse around. I hoped that installing gnome shell would give the
zoom option to gnome fallback as well, but that was not the case.
I think there should be a work around so that it may be possible to establish
a height and width for the zoom. There isn't any option in the gui that I
could find for that. Right now its height covers half the screen and it's
width goes back to back, left to right of the entire screen even if you
select the option for making the window follow the mouse. I'm sending a
picture. I'm sure there must be a way to change that never the least.
Even thought gnome shell looks pretty good, it seems it does uses 3d
acceleration am I right? So I will think that gnome fallback without compton
should be lighter than gnome shell right? I don't now how light would be to
use kmag since I think it probably has to load a lot of kde libraries to use
it. I'll test it on my old computer and see how it behave.
For my regular computer, I think I'm still too emotional attached to
compiz-plugins-extra xD which doesn't seem to work with gnome-shell very well
at all.
I wonder if compiz-plugins-extra would be back in the next Trisquel release,
or else I probably would keep using my work around if it still works
https://trisquel.info/es/forum/bring-compizs-animations-add-back-aka-compiz-plugins-extra-solved
