Allow percentages when defining a `Custom Size & Position`

[igorwojda]

Currently, we can define a custom position/size for windows, however, this requires a lot of manual calculations. To keep things more complicated these calculations are specific to a given display size.

Nowadays have a laptop and external display or use a few external displays with different resolutions. This means that the above calculations are far from ideal.

The solution would be the introduction of Unit combo box:

This would allow us to define a certain layout that is derived from the size of the connected display:

The above layout could work on all sizes of ultrawide displays, not only a specific resolution.

[rxhanson]

Thanks for the detailed feedback. I realize this is unintuitive and you can only really figure this out if you click on the info button, but you can use values <= 1 for display relative sizes. The values can be either decimal or fraction.

[igorwojda]

I still think that fixed percentages would be better.

[rxhanson]

So I understand, are you asking for a dropdown with commonly used percentages?

As it currently works, you could either input 0.5 or 1/2 for 50%, in case that wasn't clear.

[rxhanson]

Ah, I just reread through what you had in this issue and realized that maybe having a dropdown that lets you switch and translate between the two would be much better user experience. Thanks!

[igorwojda]

It is common UX pattern is many design tools to switch units like this