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mrleemurray opened this issue May 8, 2025 · 2 comments · May be fixed by #249261
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Quick pick UX | Difficult to discover & use drag feature #248391

mrleemurray opened this issue May 8, 2025 · 2 comments · May be fixed by #249261
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Currently, there it difficult to discover that the quick pick menu is able to be dragged & repositioned, offering no visual indicator to communicate the functionality:

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In addition, when the feature has been discovered, it is difficult to know what part of the UI is "grabbable". After some trail & error I discovered that the area in question is the 6px padding around the text input, which is hard to easily grab:

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A potential solution to this issue would be to mimic the macOS Spotlight Search behaviour, making the entire text input draggable when empty:

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@mrleemurray mrleemurray added the ux User experience issues label May 8, 2025
@TylerLeonhardt TylerLeonhardt added quick-pick Quick-pick widget issues feature-request Request for new features or functionality labels May 8, 2025
@TylerLeonhardt TylerLeonhardt added this to the Backlog milestone May 8, 2025
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Hi @TylerLeonhardt, I want to try fix this issue, would you mind assign it to me please?

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Assignment isn't necessary. You are welcome to send a PR anytime

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feat(quickinput): improve dnd drag areas UX mortalYoung/vscode
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