Improve UI space usage #8619
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Hey there, old Insomnia user here with huge frustration with the actual shape of the app - rant alert.
I wonder if nobody at UX ever realized how small space is left for what is actually relevant in a client: the data
See in the image how low is the ratio of space for data versus the enourmous waste of space for buttons, tabs, searchbox(?), footer with brand (and love), etc.
This is even worse when dealing with large payloads (almost everytime if you happen to work with SOAP).

This is not a concrete proposal nor a specific bug, is a heads up to say "hey guys, can you please think in your users and canonical use cases?". I don't expect an answer nor a discussion about this. I'm saying what I'm feeling as a user.
In a nutshell: a UI should be in first place useful, then nice.
If it is plenty of padding, buttons, logos, tabs, etc but it has no space for the data then it's not useful at all.
It's been some time I wasn't using Insomnia and yesterday found this awful experience: spend time to log in (go to web, back and forth), choose sort of "application mode", load exported requests, and many more set ups to just issue a simple request during a screen share in a meeting.
Please go back to roots, remove the bloat, resort stuff focusing in the most important than a client needs.
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