# Closing Panels on Full Screen

**URL:** <https://community.fibery.io/t/closing-panels-on-full-screen/3955>\
**Category:** Ideas & Features\
**Created:** [February 9, 2023, 3:17pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/closing-panels-on-full-screen/3955 "2023-02-09T15:17:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![interr0bangr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/interr0bangr/32/8089_2.png) [@interr0bangr](https://community.fibery.io/u/interr0bangr)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2024, 8:14pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/closing-panels-on-full-screen/3955/22 "2024-03-05T20:14:17Z")

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Paging @Yuri_BC because I think this conversation is related to your request [here](https://community.fibery.io/t/multi-directional-panel-navigation-to-preserve-context-enhanced-spatial-awareness-and-efficiency/5037)

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**Author:** ![Chr1sG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/chr1sg/32/3941_2.png) [@Chr1sG](https://community.fibery.io/u/Chr1sG)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2024, 9:36pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/closing-panels-on-full-screen/3955/23 "2024-03-05T21:36:59Z")

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> [@interr0bangr](#):
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> which is why having UNCONTEXTUAL information in the form of something automatically opening again after it was closed really throws us for a loop.  
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> until I close a column on the right and then get super confused why something I was looking at an hour ago popped up again

If it was something you were looking at a minute ago, it wouldn’t be ‘uncontextual’ would it?  
So it seems like somewhere between one minute and one hour, an item goes from being contextual to not 🤔

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**Author:** ![antoniokov](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/antoniokov/32/201_2.png) [@antoniokov](https://community.fibery.io/u/antoniokov)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2024, 4:38pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/closing-panels-on-full-screen/3955/24 "2024-03-06T16:38:48Z")

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Thanks to everyone for chipping in!

Here’s my summary and action items:

- There are two (largely mutually exclusive) mental models of panel navigation.
- Fibery currently leans towards the model that places more value on preserving context when browsing.
- We are not looking to overhaul the navigational model any time soon as we are focusing on other things and don’t have enough evidence to justify the effort.
- There are cases like `aBB → aBC → AB` that are annoying no matter the model. We’ll try to fix those and see if the number of complaints goes down significantly.

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