Allow entering numbers for margins instead of sliders and add mass editing

Feature description:

When settings margins, allow tapping the current number and entering a number with the touch keyboard as an alternative to sliding the bar.

Add a way to adjust all margins in one place (one setting for top, left, right bottom).

Problem solved:

Maybe it’s because I have big fingers but I despise using sliders to set exact numbers as it’s imprecise and infuriating.

Setting the margin for all fields manually is tedious and often for a consistent view, they are set to the same values (for similar fields) anyhow.

Brought benefits:

Easy way to enter exactly the value you want to.

To quickly assess what range of margin works for you, a way to set all values and then only adjusting single values that deviate from that would be way quicker and more efficient.
It could also be a way to reduce the quite lengthy settings page if you implemented global margins and then only display individual margin settings when the user wants them to deviate from the global values.

Screenshots / Mockup:

TBH I am really not a fan of the sliders in general. It would be great if the manual entry & slider could be implemented generically as a standard. Not knowing which sliders have a manual entry and which don’t is not that great for the end user.

I won’t add manual edition for those, it’s a lot of complications and users issues for little gain.

I’ll just add a + and - button near the value to fine tune it for fat fingers.

And no need for more complexity for the margins it’s not that much complicated to manage things. People do not edit their screen every day.

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Thanks on behalf of the frustrated fat-fingered faction!

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