Resizing plots: Provide a way for the user to know and reproduce the exact amount of resizing.

[R180]

Currently, the user can drag the lower corner of a plot's output field to resize and change the dimensions of a plot. (This is sometimes necessary, for example, when the plot would otherwise be too narrow to accommodate the horizontal-axis labels.)

However, there's currently no way for the user to do this consistently since the plot's output field deforms in a gradual continuous manner, with no feedback as to exactly how much the horizontal and/or vertical dimensions are changing.

This problem could be remedied in a number of ways.

One way would be to provide the user with numerical, on-screen information (a pair of pixel values) indicating what the exact dimensions are. Practically, this would need to be accompanied by a feature in which there were a key (like the shift key) that allows the resizing to happen in discrete steps as the user drags the lower right corner of the output field.

[juliuspfadt]

@R180, thanks for the request, and I apologize for the delayed response. @JorisGoosen does this belong to your area of expertise? I can see this being useful if one wants to save multiple plots for publication

[vandenman]

@JuliusPf this is something we want to build into plot editing.

[tomtomme]

superseeded by this duplicate #3078
which adds some more detail. lets discuss there.