time series controls

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For the XY plot you just have this graphical control:

This advantage of this is it is very easy to see clearly where you are within the session, and it's easy to change the start time. The downside is I don't think there is a way to change the duration of the time window.

Then for other types of plots you have like visualizing ElectricalSeries you have time controls like this

https://neurosift.app/nwb?url=https://api.dandiarchive.org/api/assets/2d26b0e2-ac61-43d2-83d6-546ab0fe0792/download/&dandisetId=001343&dandisetVersion=draft&tab=/acquisition/ElectricalSeries

that have text controls but no visualization. The advantage here is that it is easy to change the time start and duration but it is harder to visually see where you are in the session.

To get the best of both worlds, you would need to have visualization of both kinds with separate controls that are linked.

My ideal situation would be to combine these two and for every time series to show both text controls and graphical controls. From a UX perspective, I think it would be nice if these elements where put together horizontally and take up the entire width of the UX space. All other controls should be pushed to another line.