P: Lightroom Classic: Panel Scroll Bar / Close annoyance

It's simple, add a preference that shows or hides the field with the little minimzing arrows. I'm sure most users who want to hide panels quickly learn to use Tab instead anyway, we don't need to click an arrow in the GUI. I'm sure every single UX designer will tell you that it's horrible design to have 2 very tall and narrow fields right next to each other at the very end of the window. How could a design choice like this happen, and then be left unfixed for a literal decade? Also, there should be more ways to scroll a pane, such as using the middle mouse button to drag anywhere in the panel, or alt-dragging for example.

That link doesn't go anywhere meaningful.

How has it been 8 years and this still has not been addressed?

One would think!

This could be easily fixed by making so that side panels can only be shown/hidden by double clicking on the triangle.

A single click would not do anything so our problem would be solved...no UI re-design needed.

Very basic coding, a JDI.

Move the Arrow beside the Slider Sidebar. Every time I try to move the slider up or down with the bar, the arrow to move the slider sidebar seems to always move the sidebar away when I need it. VERY FRUSTRATING. Please, pretty please, move that arrow either to the top of the bar or the bottom of the bar, not to the side where it is now.

@ghappys 

> I like to use a wacom tablet and pen to work on LR and it's frustrating to close the panels when trying to scroll through them.

While you're waiting for Adobe to implement this feature, which could be a long wait, you can use 'Solo' mode. In 'Solo' mode only one panel can be open at any time. 'Solo' mode can be activated by clicking on any panel header to expose the Context menu. See attached screenshot.

This is really annoying! I like to use a wacom tablet and pen to work on LR and it's frustrating to close the panels when trying to scroll through them. I do not want to use the trackpad or a mouse wheel to scroll thru the panels 'cause I am already holding my pen! Adobe... I mean, you guys have implemented and improved tons and tons of features on LR since 2015 when this post started, why can't you add on the existing contextual menu a "Lock panels" option? or "simply" remove the little triangle that closes the panel. Any time I want to open or close those panels I just press TAB and works perfectly. It's like having a really nice sports car with a horrible dent most people see but for some strange reason the owner won't fix. Don't hate me, I love U. 

If they could finally implement a solution, it would be great...

I quite simply agree with everything said here!