Double-click on pane title bar to zoom/un-zoom panel

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
38/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cpp
Domain
desktop

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No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by locating the desktop pane title-bar handling and existing layout or panel zoom behavior. Done means double-clicking a pane title bar expands that pane while preserving the stated sidebar and bottom-panel behavior, and double-clicking it again restores the prior layout.

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Description

Component: UI Effort: Low Impact: Low UI: Panes

What is the feature you'd like to have?

I generally have multiple panes open at once, and sometimes, especially when using or switching to a graph view, it would be nice to have a quick way to "zoom" or expand a specific panel and shrink the others (and maybe the global area and even the sidebar?) temporarily. Double-clicking a zoomed panel should un-zoom it.

VSCode implements exactly this for editor tabs. (Note that VSCode does not affect the sidebar or bottom panel when zooming an editor tab.)

As a workaround, I can save the current layout, expand the pane I want expanded, save that layout, then switch between layouts, but this is awkward and inflexible, especially as I add and remove panes frequently, depending on the binary I'm looking at and for what purpose.

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