Allow user to create floating view panels #4521
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example screenshot
without the floating, the vertical stack is large
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note that it is entirely optional to float a panel, and can be done one view at a time |
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This PR adds the ability to make view panels "float" in a draggable dialog. This idea was sketched out a little while ago but trying it out again because it could solve real problems allowing more stuff to be accomodated on a screen (solve the "screen is too tall" effect)
There could potentially be situations where there is z-index fighting due to assumptions in this PR but we could try to standardize the z-index "numering" more to try to help with this
This PR proposes the floating view at 100, which allows menu bars and tooltips to go over it. It goes under the track selector currently
The alternative to this floating system is like a tiling window manager, or a masonry layout https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_grid_layout/Masonry_layout but these are hard (and, not mutually exclusive with this approach here)