Am 04.12.2017 um 17:43 schrieb Tavmjong Bah:

On Mon, 2017-12-04 at 08:31 -0700, LucaDC wrote:

Hi Tav,

my opinion is that such a widget is a design error. The only option
I'd
consider is splitting it into two usable widgets.
I think that the two functions into the same space don't coexist
well: it's
too hard and error prone to use it for numeric input (especially in
the blur
case) and, as you already noted, difficult to use as a slider in the
right
side.

I believe there is an example of what you suggest already in Inkscape
in the Objects dialog (see attachments). I toyed with that idea when I
started, it's actually trivial to implement, but it leads to a slider
widget that can be very narrow.

What I am working on effectively will act as two separate widgets by
getting rid of the overlap between the bar and the numerical entry
parts.

Tav

How hard would it be to develop something like the mock-up I attached? It's based on the current Widget but with a separate input to the right and the buttons stacked vertically allowing the whole widget to become moderately narrow but without the input interfering with the slider (I think this is also more or less what you have in mind Tav?)

Regards,
Eduard