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I almost never use them. In sd webui I change resolution often, so I patched some divs to contain [512, 640, 768, …] and click these instead. Not sure if this slider control should even exist in a flow context, because it cannot be made scrollable like a volume range.

I also somewhat like unix style numeric inputs because you can grab a bar between the arrows and drag it to change the value. No long range required.

Ranges with sticky points are somewhat okay, e.g. Virtualbox settings stick to 2^n values for RAM and some integer disk GBs. But these intermediate values are just nonsense and nobody ever selected 7527MB of RAM by non-mistake.

Bonus points for Ubuntu keyboard repeat/delay settings which don’t show the numeric values at all. You set delay to 178 or maybe 223 or maybe 202. Who cares about muscle memory, right?




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