Configuring panel height is extremely difficult, especially using a touchpad. It takes unreasonable effort to set it to a desired pixel height because very small movement (a pixel or two) changes the height. An option to manually enter a height in pixels would help.
Fixed/implemented with https://phabricator.kde.org/D29535
Very nice. In my opinion, forget about keeping the drag-to-resize functionality--what you've implemented on phabricator is significantly better.
Git commit 876eedfb6b93a2d18a91ed0d734839eed01e9947 by Nate Graham. Committed on 12/06/2020 at 14:47. Pushed by ngraham into branch 'master'. Add a SpinBox (with draggability) to panel thickness adjustment UI Summary: We receive many complaints and bug reports about the current UI for adjusting panel thickness. People don't figure out that they have to drag on the button, and when they do, they complain that it's too hard to set the value finely enough. This patch removes the draggable button and replaces it with a more conventional SpinBox, which in D29534 is given ability to adjust the values by scrolling over it or clicking and dragging. This yields the following improvements: - The way you adjust panel thickness is now more obvious - The existing drag-to-adjust behavior is much nicer and less buggy - Panel thickness can now be specified numerically - Fine-tuning panel thickness is now easier using any adjustment method - We have one fewer custom control to maintain - Bugs in custom scrolling implementation go away Touch friendliness is maintained because this SpinBox has an inherently touch-friendly design with large touchable buttons that can be held down to quickly adjust the value, and touch-and -drag still works after D29534 is applied. I wouldn't mind using this SpinBox design elsewhere too; see T9460. Related: bug 421169 FIXED-IN: 5.19 Test Plan: {F8301480} {F8301388} Reviewers: abetts, #vdg, #plasma, mart Reviewed By: #vdg, #plasma, mart Subscribers: mart, ahiemstra, cblack, plasma-devel Tags: #plasma Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D29535 D +0 -181 desktoppackage/contents/configuration/panelconfiguration/SizeHandle.qml M +43 -6 desktoppackage/contents/configuration/panelconfiguration/ToolBar.qml https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/commit/876eedfb6b93a2d18a91ed0d734839eed01e9947