I have removed the icons from sidepane.htm so that I have more space for objects, since I tend to have several layers for construction lines and profiles. Right now it works for me, but I have to work with it for a while to see whether there better possibilities for me to choose tools.

What really didn't work was making the whole thing part of a fly out menu, because the resizing closes the window. Otherwise I would have written something that just adds a search field to ExtScriptsFull.menu.htm.