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Poor control issues

Consider Gimp and its tools.

gimp_paint_tool_options_1

and now let's consider one single control

gimp_paint_tool_options_1_single_control

and observe one very stupid thing that is commonplace amongst the UX with digital painting packages: **the total range of the slider is contained in a box measuring 136 pixels in width, and with tiny up/down controls. How else could I control the slider? If it took up more screen space? Consider this:

gimp_with_big_sidebar_1

that leaves you with a very small area. So one idea, if you have two screens is to undock the tabs and put them all on a second screen. Gimp can already do this. But consider that you only need for the sliders to take up a lot of screen real estate when you need precision controlling them. Another thing is that for most use cases, you will only want to use a small subrange of the slider. For example, if I am tracing a photograph, I perhaps want brush widths between 1 and 10 pixels.

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