This would change the meaning of "Connection panel" completely, though. In practice, I'm not sure it would be needed that often. In what circumstances would you regularly need to see both the queue and par2 status, in a way that doesn't involve the (much simpler than you're suggesting) undock?
yeah from connection panel to contol panel... the panel exists and in practice how often do i need check the conncections? Unless i just set/changed servers or something went wrong i hardly ever need to check them. so why not add for something that is of interest more often?
undocking is something i have used, but it is something i only use on a system with multiple monitors or maybe one with a very big screen. for me undocking only makes sence if the undocked window has a place where it doesn't need to be moved or minimized permanently or at least for a longer while. on a small laptop screen thats typicaly not the case, so when i switch to browser the "always in front" par2 tab is in the way and needs to be minimzed. also it's another window, which means that i later need to overlay it once again with the correct alt.binz-backround-window. because of the the framing a window takes up a lot more space, than a one or two line progressbar in the panel would.
Edith:
Why i want to see the par2 and queue at the same time? Because the queue is where the action is! I could manage the queue(rearenging the order of the queue renaming or joining/splitting collections ect.) and at the same time as check on all important areas of progress: RSS Import, Download, Repair/Unrar
