P: Lightroom Classic: Panel Scroll Bar / Close annoyance

Fair enough! And I hope I didn't sound too harsh in my response! I guess I just kind of wanted to convey, especially based on that other thread I came across (which is, I guess, now this thread) that this wasn't some kind of weird quirk in my mind or that I'm obsessing over minutia here. I'll put it this way: if enough users (as in the people who keep Adobe going) think it's a design flaw, it's by definition a design flaw! Unless it's just something completely unreasonable and beyond our current technological capabilities, but I REALLY doubt that's the case here (I mean, Windows itself has "lock" features, right?). 

Please also understand that this is kind of "tough love!" If I didn't love Lightroom overall and find it invaluable, I wouldn't care. But it's because I use it so much and plan to use it even more in the future that I think it would be great if this were corrected, just so I'm not taken out of the "zone" while going through my workflow. Hope that makes sense. Thanks again for your attention to this!

I appreciate your response, but can't say I agree with it. Everything you say is all well and good, but there's no reason that people can't be able to see lots of information and options on the screen AND there be a way to lock that panel to keep it from going anywhere. Having such a feature would hardly take away from what you can see on the screen -- in fact, it would just ensure that people keep seeing it. Furthermore, and this is important, I did some more digging after writing my initial post, and apparently I'm far from the only one who feels this way…

By @Jordan26437343lemp 

I just want to clarify that I didn’t mean to imply that locking the panel was a bad idea. You have every right to want it. I was just sort of explaining why the scroll bars are so narrow. And fortunately, your thread has been merged in with the existing feature request thread so that what you said is now combined with others who feel the same way. I certainly won’t mind if Adobe adds the feature, because it won’t get in my way and will help others.

The trick now is to get Adobe to do it. It isn’t always enough to have some people want the same thing. There are hundreds of requests for features that seem “simple” and they can’t all be done at once, so every software company has to rank which ones should get done first, based on everything from which requests are getting the most votes, to what the competition is doing.

I will help out this effort by clicking the “upvote” button at the top of the page. Good luck!

I know that this question might be a bit picky, as it's not like this issue prevents me from actually using Lightroom and improving my images in it, but it certainly is an annoyance. Is there any way to lock the right panel? The problem is that there is basically no space between the scroll bar and that little arrow that collapses the panel, so I find myself accidentlycollapsing it and then expending it over and over again, which just disrupts my workflow. It seems to me like this is a design flaw, so I would hope that there is some way of dealing with it. Thank you.

I agree!!  This problem really needs to get fixed.  Is anyone at Adobe listening.  For whoever is responsible for this part of Lightroom I have a message.  I hope that you have some software you use every day and it has a bug in it that drives you crazy and you can't get it fixed.  Take that!!

There seriously needs to be a 'lock' option.  I'm adding my voice to the "25", which I'm sure isn't greater because it took me ages to find this thread as I wasn't sure how to ask for what I wanted.  For Wacom users, it's particularly annoying.
With so many ways to hide the panels, can't you just lose the arrows completely?!
Soooooooooooooooooooooo frustrating.....

There sewriously needs to be a 'lock' option.  I'm adding my voice to the "25", which I'm sure isn't greater because it took me ages to find this thread as I wasn't sure how to ask for what I wanted.
With so many ways to hide the panels, can't you just lose the arrows completely?!
Soooooooooooooooooooooo frustrating.....

Just a reminder.  This is still a daily annoyance.  Actually, it happens several times a day.  Can it please get fixed?

This isn't an enhancement we are asking for.  It's fixing an annoying bug that has been in Lightroom for as long as I have been using it.

I was a software developer for over 40 years and dumb little problems like this drove me and my clients crazy.  I would fix things like this just to make my clients happy and so I wouldn't have to listen to them complain.  There are two really simple solutions to this problem; 1) change it so you must click on the arrow to collapse the pane.  It's way too easy to miss the narrow scroll bar and the pane collapses.  2)  Add a fourth option "Lock" under "Manual" when you right click on the panel.  Is anyone at Adobe listening?  Come on, fix this thing and make your paying clients happy.  You will no longer have to listen to us complain.

I have seen this issue arise in several posts - I'd like a way to lock the side panels so that when I'm working on metadata and keywords in Library mode the panel stays where it is if I happen to click too closely to the small triangle.  The font in the panel is already tiny and difficult to work with, but it is very annoying to have the panel constantly disappear and then have to click to have it reappear.  This happens frequently enough to prompt me to request this feature - have pity on those of us who don't have perfect eyesight and coordination!