https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104505
--- Comment #4 from Yousuf Philips (jay) <[email protected]> ---
Created attachment 129464
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image content panel before and after
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #3)
> Sounds like an abuse of dropdowns that make sense for a fix set of options.
> The spin edits are controls for numerical values typically within a defined
> range. Similarly the slider is a nice control for this type of data.
>
> Dropdowns are slow, at least slower compared to spin edits and sliders,
> since you have to open the dropdown and select the right item. And in case
> of larger lists the dropdown has more drawbacks.
Spin edits arent simple controls and combining it with a slider doesnt make it
any simpler to the basic user (Benjamin) who would like to set a value but
doesnt know how much of a value is useful to being set, which is where presets
come in (e.g. a drop down with presets to set the above paragraph spacing in
the paragraph content panel). Also dropdown presets will always be faster than
spin edits and sliders, especially when the drop down adjusts multiple spin
edit values at the same time (e.g. the drop down with presets to set the wrap
spacing in the wrap content panel.
In general, spinboxes arent good for the sidebar (especially the size problem
with gtk3 when having two columns) and the slider widget with a spinbox would
need to take up their own row of the sidebar (e.g. transparency slider in area
content panel), which takes up two rows of the sidebar when you have a label
for it and this causes problems with the limited height space we have.
> Would be good to have a mockup to talk about your idea.
Enjoy
Thinking about the issue more, we could also leave out the color balance (aka
rgb) row, as i dont see many users changing the value similar to how they dont
in the toolbar.
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