P: Lightroom Classic: Panel Scroll Bar / Close annoyance

Another idea ... how about making the buttons, which activate/deactivate the sticky panels  a little smaller.
Currently they are as high/wide  as the window, which makes it very easy to accedently hit them instead of the scroll bar/menu/whatever is close to it.

If users shall be able to hit a some pixel small scrollbar, they should also be able to hit an stick/unstick button which is a little smaller than now ... even more since scrollbars are probable more often used than these buttons.

What do you think?

My mouse is quite new (half a year or so), I just have come accustomed to the consistently smooth mouse wheel scroll behaviour in Mac while on Window some programs try to make it smooth while others still have the jumpy behavior (just like the Lightroom panels). The jumpy thing irritates me now and I use the scrollbar more often rather than the scroll wheel. So I have more changes to miss the scroll bar and click the thing that "unsticks" the panel.

There is no way to lock the panels. But, read the comments about "solo" mode above. That doesn't fix the actual problem, but it did alleviate my aggravation quite a bit.

While I haven't worked on a Mac in years, so I cannot compare mouse use on a PC versus a Mac. But, I have had no problems with my mouse's scrolling behavior on the several Windows boxes I have used. It may be a function of the particular mouse you are using, though. I doubt it is inherent in Windows. How old is your mouse. I assume it's optical, but does it use lasers for tracking? In 2009, Logitech came out with "darkfield" technology" which uses lasers for tracking. They work on virtually any surface, even glass, and are extremely accurate. 

Not sure if this is the right thread, but I would also appreciate being able to lock panels in place.
Since I switched back to Windows from Mac latey, it happens very frequently that I accidentely hide  a panel instead of scrolling. The reason may be, that I use the scroll bars more frequently now because of the the inacceptable (!!!) mouse scrolling behavour of the panel contents on Windows. (May be caused by Windows?) Please provide a way to make it impossible to accidentely hide panels when you want to scroll.

Solo mode does not solve this

Right Click on any panel heading and select 'Solo Mode'

what is solo mode and where do I find it?

Yes, I have also learned that scrolling problems of the tools panel can be avoided by using solo mode. It works quite well, and it's my preferred way to work in LR. However, it is still unfortunate that Adobe cannot address a problem for many that has such a simple fix.