Type in settings values about burn-my-windows HOT 5 CLOSED

Hi there! Thanks for the suggestion! However, I think that it is not required in most of the use-cases and would make the UI more complicated. If you really need to adjust the sliders to specific values, you have two options:

• Long-press: GTK4 sliders can be long-pressed to enter a fine-adjust mode. Have you tried this?
• Directly edit the profile configuration file: For this, use the menu entry "Open Effect-Profile Directory" in the extension's preferences. Open the file which corresponds to your current profile (if you have only one profile, it's easy to figure out; if you have multiple profiles you could change something in your settings and see which file gets updated). If you change something in the profile configuration file and save it, the corresponding slider in the extension preferences will automatically be updated to that value!

I hope that this is sufficient for you!

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Yes I've tried fine sliding. The UX sucks for that and is painful. That's why I just want to type the value in and get it done quickly, instead of going back and forth time and time again. Please re-open. And editing the profile config file directly defeats the point of even having a GUI anyways...

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Thanks for clarifying your point, but I still do not see any circumstances under which exact values are required in the extension. If there is such a use-case, I would very likely consider it to be too niche to justify such a convolution of the UI.

Why do you need exact numerical values (apart from 1500 ms looks better in the UI than 1498 ms)?

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Because that's what I want. Like, it's also faster for me to type in the number than have to adjust the slider to "close enough"... like by a lot. I really don't think enabling typing in a value as an additional way to define the value is an unreasonable ask at all. This is something common with many other extensions.

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Well sorry, but that's not enough reason for me to spent multiple hours of my spare time. The effect configuration is not about the numbers. For most users the actual numbers should be completely insignificant! The only important thing is that the effect looks as awesome as the user wants it to look in the end. And this can only be figured out by playing with the sliders. And for this use-case, sliders are way more efficient than number inputs.

In this regard, it may even be a better solution for your issue to hide the numbers altogether. Then you would not be tempted to enter precise numbers in the first place...

(and regarding your other point: none of the extensions I have installed uses sliders and number inputs)

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