Compact screen

Hello,
I find there is a lot of useless strings, most can very easily replaced by icons and tooltips. After few minutes of use, what might have been confusing is now known with the tooltip (or manual/help).

Here is a quickly made ascii-layout, don’t pay attention to spacing/alignments.
All tabs are visible, no need of second level tabs.
In this capture, we are on the password tab.
History on the right clock-in-round-arrow icon
Password field on 2 lines, regenerate and copy icons on its left.
It can be also manually edited, so you can for example remove unwanted char or add some kind of small mnemonic chars.

Its width can be very small, minimum would be something like the [x] LlIi10Oo ambiguous characters option. All tab icons become a single burger-menu icon.
Everything can be set/unset via keyboard without having to use the mouse at all.

New forbidden characters field at bottom right.
On this matter, it would be far simpler to have only 1 checkbox with authorized special characters:
[x] [ & ( ) [ ] $ * -+*/ ]

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Here is a second version.
Must enhance the tabs area as it is not color-blind friendly, should be the usual tab style… Quickly made with html-css & fontawesome.

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This design looks so good, especially compared to the compact mode presented in 2024.12 Bitwarden browser extension update.

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To make further comparison, this is like comparing Asus’ bloated Armoury Crate with seerge’s incredible GHelper. (niche mention i know, but i’m certain all asus laptop users will resonate with me.

No offence, but these designs would qualify for me as “ugliest mode”… :sweat_smile:
(borrowed from @grb 's terminology)

De gustibus non disputandum!

… Doesn’t the forum show that you can argue about everything? :laughing:

I take the meaning of the maxim to be that such topics shouldn’t be debated, not that they cannot.