WTH is with all the empty visual real-estate in automation/script editors, configuration page, etc?

Archive Month of "What the heck?!" (2020)
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In wide-screen, the Configuration page (as well as automation/script editors, etc) is a two-column layout.

On the right is a long column of buttons, forcing you to scroll every time for important stuff like Server Controls and Logs.

On the left, is the “Configure Home Assistant” header, and a single paragraph of text. Leaving a huge void on the left-hand side.

Seems like very valuable real-estate left un-used. If filled with other buttons, for example, it could reduce scrolling, or allow for other UI options.

Same thing with the automation/script editors, but I’m not sure what should occupy that void – probably would look very cluttered to have, say, triggers and conditionals on the left, and actions on the right.

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Yes!
I have noticed this many many times, as I scroll down past all the empty space :slight_smile:

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That depends on how “blown up” your screen is. But I agree there is a lot of waste space in some views.

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In addition, when you run it on 4K, 42" monitor, a lot of things is too big making it not confortable to read.

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Agreed. This is slightly related to topic WTH do all tabs look so different? (developer tools, supervisor and configuration), where I proposed that the various “groups” on the base configuration screen should be floating/tiled boxes arranged similar to the boxes on the add-on page.