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
