Define fig size with subplot while height is deprecated in layout

When using height argument in layout, I have a warning telling that this argument is deprecated.
I can use height in plot_ly function directly which is very fine.

However, when using subplot, I did not find a convenient way to specify the total height for the assembled panels. Should subplot accept its own height and width arguments ?

If I understand correctly, subplot uses by default the layout from one of the contained plots. It seems to be the case for width and height but I find it confusing because:

• height is encouraged to be defined outside of the layout function
• it seems counterintuitive that the size of the panels assembly is controled by the size defined in one subpanel

panel1 = plot_ly(x = 1, y = rnorm(100), height = 600, width = 100) %>% 
           add_trace(type = "violin")
panel2 = plot_ly(x = 1, y = rnorm(100), height = 300, width = 300) %>% 
           add_trace(type = "violin")

# Size of individual panels are respected
panel1
panel2

# Total figure size uses size of one subpanel (one can use 'which_layout' to control which)
subplot(panel1, panel2)
subplot(panel2, panel1)

Start at the subplot and plot_ly entry points, then review how layout dimensions and which_layout currently determine the assembled figure size. Clarify whether subplot should accept height and width independently of its panels, and define the expected behavior for conflicting panel dimensions before proposing the change.