Feature Request: Full screen (or big screen) mode for Slideshow block

[w-sky]

Impacted plugin

Jetpack

What

A button on the slideshow front-end to activate fullscreen mode

How

I can imagine a "real" fullscreen mode, but also a "big screen" or "cinema" mode would be great, where the rest of the page is darkened and the slideshow (including control buttons and captions) would be enlarged to maximum size within the browser window.

[keoshi]

Connecting the dots to the older request: https://github.com/Automattic/jetpack/issues/5220

[jeherve]

I'll close #5220 and #27811 so we can consolidate things under this one issue.

In short, it would be beneficial to have either or both:

• A "Full Screen" button to access a modal
• Open the existing Carousel feature's modal when you click on an image.

[liviopv]

Something similar was suggested in https://github.com/Automattic/wp-calypso/issues/55267

Requested one:

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[liviopv]

@jeherve I wonder if the lightbox behavior shipping as an experiment with Gutenberg 16 could help expedite the work on this feature.

[jeherve]

I wonder if the https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/50373 could help expedite the work on this feature.

Maybe, although this would require work with the Slideshow block, that may not be much different than adding support for our own Carousel view.