Hi There, For completion, I wanted to present something that I thought up in the context of the scrollbar over content issue . [608640385-bab3d18e-496c-4c3a-b162-33125d2fdf32] It's called "presenter mode" and can be activated using some frontend code. The idea is to remove all decorations from the…

So a bit like Perspectives in Eclipse :thinking: IMO, having the means to switch between different UI configs is definitely worth thinking about. I already have several use cases in mind, like "standard" development, Dashboard dev, Debugging/Tracing, or a simple "zen mode" to concentrate on a task…

[image] kuema: Perspectives in Eclipse Reading up from here and specifically this image: [Image70_select_pers] Yes that's intention, having specific tasks and designing/having a UI layout that assists in doing that task.

Exactly. That’s it. :nerd_face: Back in my Java days, I used Eclipse a lot, both as an IDE and as the UI platform for our frontend. So I got pretty used to it back then. Perspectives are a deeper concept in the Eclipse platform, but from a UI point of view, it’s basically exactly what you proposed…

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I've packed this into the presenter mode package for easy installation. The package also includes the sidebar panel buttons, see post for more details.

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