UI: Allow configuration of number of UI columns.

[Athanasius]

Quite a few users are utilising so many plugins, with UI elements, that only growing vertically is becoming a problem.

The simplest solution to this would appear to be to allow a user-configurable number of columns of UI.

1. The main UI would always sit only in column 1. I'm envisaging the rendered size of this not changing.
2. Any additional columns would take in plugins' UI in a left-to-right then top-to-bottom manner.

   Main UI
   Plugin1
   Plugin2
   Plugin3
   Plugin4
   Plugin5
   Update/Status
   

   with two columns configured becomes:

   Main UI | <empty>
   Plugin1 | Plugin2
   Plugin3 | Plugin4
   Plugin5 | <empty>
   Update/Status
   

This will go hand in hand with the implementation of #1792 ... and it might therefore be easier to do that after this.

[DawnTreader]

I think that configurable columns would be great, but even better would be tear off tabs or floating panels. I mainly use EDMC for the overlay and the fleet carrier plug in features at this point. If each plugin was able to be put in its own panel and overlayed I think that would make a lot of CMDRs happy.

[Athanasius]

I can't recall if I documented this outside of some Discord mutterings.

With tk/tkinter you cannot re-parent a widget once it's created. This means no ability to start with the UI as it is now, coding it the simplest way, and then move a window out to its own (i.e. not parented to the main UI, possibly parented to a 'manage this floating window' frame).

Instead the code would have to be complicated by making the "docked together" instance actually be faked with some code to make all of those frames follow each other when the master one is moved. i.e. you'd have a bunch of actually completely independent top-level frames that you need to make always move, and resize, together. In essence writing a mini window manager in order to make this work.

[parduz]

Not all plugins are useful on overlay (the neutron router, as example) and someone with 2 monitors may be happy to have them as they are now, just with a better arrangement.