5.4.1 is out 
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Yeah, that’s what I figured.
But before I submitted a feature request, I thought I’d do a bit more experimentation to see how these “98%” pickers worked (e.g. the auto tune levels in AgX, all pickers in the 4 Ways tab of Color Balance RGB, etc.).
The first time they are used in a session, they default to a bounding box covering 98% of the image. If you then redraw the box, this new area is remembered for the individual picker, and it will default to this new area after cropping and even after switching to a different image.
It struck me that there should be a way to reset this bounding box, but I had a sneaking suspicion that this functionality probably existed. I tried diving into the code for the first time, but came up short because I can’t really read the code well. So I resorted to good old trial and error, and lo and behold, I found that right-clicking anywhere in the image while the bounding box is active will reset it to 98%!
I don’t know if this feature is documented anywhere but I never knew it existed. So hopefully this helps others who may be unaware of the feature.
TLDR: When a bounding box is active, right-click anywhere in the image to reset it to 98% of the current image displayed (cropped or not).
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I went through the same learning curve earlier this week. I really wanted Ctrl + Click or Shift + Click to act as the reset function.
I think this sounds like a bug. I don’t think we want the box to be outside the image dimensions. I think you should start a GitHub issue.
No, it’s intentional.
In theory you could wipe pickers when changing images, but if you have a series of images of the same subject, the previous area might still have validity and having to select it again and again could be a nuisance.
(agx: don't activate the pivot pickers until the user starts dragging the mouse by kofa73 · Pull Request #20208 · darktable-org/darktable · GitHub)
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It would be cool to make this a tooltip on the picker button, or appending it to the tooltip for the ones that already have help text. Would that annoy more experienced users?
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The new presets have been merged, and will be available with the next daily builds.
- the hue preservation slider’s new default is 60% (not only in the presets, but on the slider, too)
- the new default of the contrast is 3 (both on the slider and in the new scene-referred default profile)
- similarly, shoulder and toe power have new defaults of 3.3 and 1.5
- new presets: sigmoid-like|default and |smooth
The ‘punchy’ preset has been retained for Blender (whose parameters I did not change), but has been removed / is not provided for the other presets, as they are more contrasty out-of-the-box. Please copy the ‘looks’ settings from the Blender-like|punchy if you want to keep it.
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