If I’ve been working within a 2U panel, getting everything sized and aligned just so, and I need more real estate to work with, is there a way to convert it to a 3U panel without all my widgets stretching to fill the new space?
Select-all and then hitting “-” to make things smaller doesn’t help, because it just piles all the widgets up into an incoherent mess.
(Also, the “undo” command doesn’t seem to work to undo a change of panel size, nor to undo the above-mentioned shrinkage trainwreck…)
Currently, the only way to achieve this without changing the widgets’ size is to create a 3U panel and move them one by one using the drag-and-drop technique.
Thank you. Yeah, I tried select-all and moving them en masse, but as you know, this doesn’t work. Moving them one by one, in my case, seems like it would be more work than just resizing the panel and then going through and resizing and re-aligning each bunch of similar widgets. Ah well, thanks!
What should happen if you go from 3U to 1U panel and select to keep the widget size?
I can think of a few reasonable behaviours but if you’re asking my opinion, I think it should succeed if there is room (i.e. if all the widgets already fit within a rectangle of height 1U), and otherwise it should fail with an error message.
The more I think about my original question, though, the more I think that in most situations using several smaller panels would be a better idea than using one big panel, since it encourages the designer to think in modular terms.
That sure is not the worst idea, but besides that it would be really useful if the devs could make it possible to just move a whole group of widgets via drag & drop from one panel to another.
I see it’s been a couple of years since the last post in this topic. FWIW, I join the fellowship of those who would have great use for the ability to expand panel size while keeping widgets as-they-are. Thanks.
