Comment 6 for bug 180302

I'm going to do some mockups of how the panels can be made a bit more compact and not stretch or resize with opening or closing of other panels. This bug may not be the right place. Would Blueprints https://blueprints.launchpad.net/inkscape/ be a better place? Or a Wiki somewhere? It would basically spell out some layout guidelines with mockups, which maybe others could build on. I cannot code, I sometimes wish I could. I can only suggest what I think might be a more professional polish, though I understand Inkscape is basically still alpha software. A lot of Opensource projects, particularly in Gnome/GTK, has a problem there.

Another screenshot from the Feb.7 build for Windows showing the problem of resizing in both directions after the large Filter Effects panel has been opened and minimised.