Everything is a tab exept explorer

[Sharaf5]

I tried replit.com to test it's IDE and blender
I'm not really a fan of AI features replit provide but the the way the agent and user could interact with the code base without intrupting each other and the fantastic UI they built

zed cant be a replica of replit at any way : both has diff levels and diff views - but it could use some productivity tips from that UI
the fact that replit made everything exept file explorer (file and project wide search within it) are taps in the IDE canvas is fancy, making extensions, mcp and integration list as tools to the middle side (you could make it to the top or button with some small changes) I realy filt I could switch to any thing easly, it was like if I was working with blender everything is a canvas tile

I really admire the performance zed focus on and want it's UI to be the best
Also that may help organizing extentions, tools, and give extentions ability to have their tabs or enhance it, costome tools across tabs, sandboxed capabilites, AI advanced editors and more

How do you feel about this UI

[JonGretar]

The problem with a UI like this is that it can be very efficient in a large monitor. When you put it in a laptop screen it gets so bad so quick. The idea with docks is that they should appear when needed and be easily hidable. Making the focus be the editor. If everything is a tab in panel split it is either always taking up space in the screen or in a tab hidden behind and you need to switch between all the time.

[Sharaf5]

I tested that in blender and replit on wide screen already
your tab tiling in the editor is similar in behavior and keeps tabs percentages when resizing window

Now the oposite of what you said on small screen or tiled window small space
I think there

Compairing the 2 screens above, I think the tiled tabs is more productive and give more space for user move and eye sight than just in place docks

I'm not against docks
the current behavior could be preserved by the ability to move contents from docks to tabs or configuring the defult behavior in setting
I know vscode has similar thing for integrated terminal while keeping docked terminal panel at the same time, proving that this customization dont need explicitly to remove docks

[JonGretar]

You misunderstand. On a small screen you don't have all 3 docks open. I mostly work on a laptop and at most I have one of the dock open. Most of the time there is no dock open.

So most of the time I work in this view:

If I need the project manager, agent, terminal or git panel. Then I open the corresponding dock, do me work, and close it again with a shortcut. Giving me a focused, non-scattered view on what I am trying to accomplish.

In a panelized, tiling interface everything is always open. There is not "hide the right side" shortcut.