Sidebar is collapsed by default and doesn't persist its state

[morozov]

In earlier versions, the sidebar was always expanded and displayed not only menu icons but the labels as well. Using it for navigation was convenient since it just took to read the label and click.

The UI available in 0.18 (probably as of 2665008) collapses the sidebar by default and doesn't seem to persist the expanded state anywhere in the browser storage. It makes navigation harder since one either has to constantly expand the sidebar or decipher the meanings of the icons.

Given that modern displays are primarily wide, saving horizontal real estate at the cost of UX doesn't seem that necessary.

The default value of expanded seems to be hard-coded and not configurable:

akhq/client/src/components/Base/Base.jsx

Line 15 in 2665008

expanded: false

Please consider one of the following solutions:

1. Make the sidebar expanded by default.
2. Make the default state configurable at the application level.
3. Make the expanded/collapsed state persistent.

Thank you!