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The current UI of the StyleBuilder being put as a separate window below the editor area is awesome. The original design of the UI was created for a modal dialog stretched over a large part of the monitor area so the whole content of the UI was visible and the user didn't have to scroll the panes to get to the UI element laying at the bottom. The new UI should use more smaller buttons with icons instead of text (like a toolbar) and try to lay out the components more effectively. The old UI should remain for the dialog purposes.
*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 148460 ***