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+- Give the desktop cockpit the main page's side rails: Data Layers alone on the
+  left, and Display and Radio as a right rail that opens one panel at a time
+  beside it, at the same height, with Contact and Live Signals restyled to
+  match (manjunath22466, samehkhamis, #1739).