How to "hide" some UI elements in DT/darkroom UI

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In DT I spend most of my time in darkroom mode. Within darkroom there are several elements of the UI that I don’t use and have no need for (yet). They get in the way of what I use and need and are also visual clutter (for me). Examples of what I don’t use/need and would like to hide:
(in darkroom LHS panel): Tagging, Mask Manager, and under Export: Format Options, Global Options.

Is there a way to “hide” them (as with other elements of the UI)? The manual doesn’t help explain how to “hide” those UI elements or I’m looking in the wrong place in the manual.

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I’m not sure if I could be missing the point… but if for example you click this:
image
it collapses to this:
image

Any help? :slightly_smiling_face:

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Steven, yes, what you described–collapsing the Tagging tab–works fine for me too. However that’s not the issue I was raising. I’d rather not see Tagging (and for that matter, Mask Manager too) at all.

Also, in Image Information I removed a whole set of entries not relevant for me. Yet it shows those fields I selected and then a heap of blank space under (which I presume is a software bug). That blank space shouldn’t be there. Similarly, under Export I want to “hide” format options, global options. Possible? Perhaps not…

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Sorry, understand now… I had a sneaking feeling that was what you were asking but I went the other way for some reason!
I don’t know - I suspect not possible. Not sure about the image info fields though.

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You can collapse the whole panel, but it isn’t possible to hide specific modules.

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Also, you can’t hide/remove (blocks of) options within a given module, and you can only collapse such blocks if the developer provided for that. What you can do is remove complete darkroom modules from the interface, or rearrange them to your liking. You can even have modules appear in several groups. See the manual under “Darkroom/organisation”.

But don’t be too fast in removing anything, there may be a point in the future where you will want to use some of those items, and remembering they were there after several months isn’t guaranteed.

(As an example: I use jpeg for “normal” exports, but TIFF or png when I want to use the exported file with another program, for the 16-bit or float data those formats allow. And “mask manager” is invaluable as soon as you use masks several times within one edit)