2 Minor Ideas for Plasma

[Jamboarder]

Marco Martin <notmart at gmail.com> wrote:
> yeah, was really surprised that nobody could figure out that, i was 
> thinking "it's like resizing a window, what could go wrong?", but yeah, kinda 
> missed the target this time :(
> now it changes color on mouse over and has 3 little dots in it maybe it could 
> help a bit,
> putting the resize handle at the bottom should be really easy, but i kinda 
> fear it would be even worse, i know i'm the only one on that, but it felt 
> really more natural to put the resize handle after everything and so wrong at 
> the bottom of the controller...
> i maybe would try to put two of them, one on top and one on the bottom, don't 
> know if that redundancy could help or hinder...
> now with things so frozen what i think i can do is to move/replicate the 
> resize handle and for the future i would resume the combobox with tiny, 
> medium etc. that is kinda sad because i was trying to remove configuration 
> buttons and then that thing will get filled of buttons but well...

If it helps any, would simply grabbing the ruler itself to resize the panel be helpful?  There's always lots of room on the ruler to grab without accidentally hitting the sliders.  It could be perhaps be indicated with an on hover tooltip and perhaps visual grab handles (dots or something) along the ruler.   Perhaps an additional indicator could be a cursor change to the hand-grab (or maybe re-size) icon over the ruler (except of course over the anchor and max/min sliders where cursor should return to the arrow).  

This would allow all panel resizing to be functionally co-located on the same widget - the ruler - which may in turn help with discovery.

Hope this helps,
Andrew (Jamboarder) Lake
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