Could there be ready made layouts in batclient? First one would be the one that is there now with all those windows. Then there would be other called 'basic', which is below in picture. That is a version with all the annoying features(to me at least) removed. Thats how I'd like to use batclient. Besides those two there could be third one called 'custom' which would be any layout saved by user.
BASIC: