Hi Ella, yes I think it would probably be feasible to have something like that, check out this previous discussion for some ideas on putting the side pane into a dialog for example:

http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=1173.17

But it will probably be a bit difficult to make it work very smoothly, like remember positions when you start MoI up again, stuff like that.

- Michael