@tojofo, I'm going to stop making reference to who did or didn't write something, or whether it was introduced in a particular commit - I actually don't care.  The important thing is that I'm reviewing some code, I notice something that could be improved, so I make a comment :-)

Yes, it may be difficult to do this in Ext, but maybe not (I'm certainly not suggesting we try to re-layout the whole portal in one go - but it's something we should be heading for).  VBox and HBox layout seem to be designed for this purpose (using a `flex` parameter)