P: Lightroom Classic: Panel Scroll Bar / Close annoyance

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!

I think that the scroll bars on the right and left side panels are too thin. If you want to scroll up and down the panel and happen to click to the outside of the scroll bar, the panel disappears. It happens in both the Library and Develop modules. This is not a new problem and it's probably by design. It has however, been a pet peeve of mine since way back in Lightroom 1. I'm wondering if anyone else gets frustrated with this and wishes it would change. Does anyone have a work-around for this problem? This happens to me several times a day and it gets frustrating.

You can still drag any of the 4 bars out from anywhere without using the arrow.

Why can we not edit or delete out own posts? That's completely ridiculous.

I think a simple way to solve this would be a setting where all the bars/everything but the image locks while the brush tool is actively being used. When you close the brush tool pallette, it would all unlock.

I've been using Lightroom since the first version and this has been an issue since it was added. When you're masking around the edges, it's way too easy for the cursor to open or extend a side/top/bottom bar. While the Adjustment Brush pallette is open or while you're actively clicking/dragging/using the brush tool, having the UI lock would be ideal to prevent accidently clicking things and having a bar randomly open.

Precisely. Make it function like the scroll arrow on the film strip, which requires clicking within a few (maybe 5) pixels of the arrow itself.

I would like to add to this thread to express my continued annoyance with this. Years of complaints and no action from Adobe. This and a host of other major and minor issues documented with years of complaints make Capture One is look better and better every day. It's getting to the point where the pain of continuing with LR exceeds the pain of transferring over.

I will merge these threads. 

FYI, When posting an external link in this forum you can make it appear as a clickable link if you hit the return key immediately after you paste it.

You can even go back and edit your own post by placing the cursor at the end of your link and pressing return.