element-hq / element-hq/element-web

View subspaces while the Spaces-bar is minimised.

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A-Spaces A-Subspaces O-Occasional S-Minor T-Enhancement X-Needs-Design
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Description

#### Is your suggestion related to a problem? Please describe.
When viewing subspaces in a space, the space-bar automatically expands, and takes up a huge amounts of valuable screen real-estate. This makes Element take up a lot more space than what's necessary, and it looks very clunky, aseptically on small screens.
Screenshot 2021-05-26 at 20 27 23 (2)

#### Describe the solution you'd like.
You should be able to view sub-spaces while the space-bar is minimised.

#### Describe alternatives you've considered.
It could be solved like this:
![view all Subspaces at once](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/37002225/119723401-b017e200-be6d-11eb-8106-e1627d69526b.png)
My inspiration is from Discords server folders:
![2021-05-26 22 06 34](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/37002225/119724421-fcafed00-be6e-11eb-8c66-ef643f9d4430.gif)

#### Additional context
This does mean that you won't be able so see the names of the subspaces unless you hover over them. But if it's a space you use a lot, it won't matter, since you know it well. And this won't be an issue if vector-im/element-web#17378 is added, since it will show the subspaces in the room list anyway.

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