Options to set panel width in absolute or relative pixels

Submitted by Francesco Galizzi

Link to original bug (#11093)

Description

I would like to specify the length of a panel not as % of the screen but in pixels, like "Length (px): XXX" or also as "Screen width/height minus (px): XXX". I think this would solve the problem of "two panels in a corner", too.

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RockDoctor said:

I, too, would like the option of specifying a panel length in pixels rather than as a percentage of the screen.

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mentioned in issue #181 (closed)

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@philipzae you added it to the 4.18 milestone, are you interested in implementing this feature?

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@Tamaranch Did you consider changing the widget to a GtkSpinButton? It would make entering a specific length easier.

Not sure if entering a specific value is the most common usage in this case. And when it comes to quickly varying the length of the panel, it would make things more difficult. It seemed to me that we could keep the GtkScale.