You may be planning for expansion and this may not be relevant: but the application node can hold the properties directly.

    ---
    properties:
      content: ""
      title: ""
      savename: 0

The `vwf_view.kernel.find( '', '/editor' )` calls would then reduce to `vwf_view.kernel.application()`, which is the same as `vwf_view.kernel.find( '', '/' )`.