Right now the log is a rather technical piece of UI. Mostly useful for seeing what’s going on and debugging. It also takes up a significant amount of screen space.
It would be better if the log was not visible by default.
Here are some possible approaches:
- Keep the log where it is, but give it a collapsed state.
- Move the log to its own dedicated window, and add a menu option to open it.
- Give the log a dedicated panel and tree node.
If the log is no longer visible by default, it would be good to introduce a small indicator for communication activity. Perhaps something like network indicators, with red/green lights or arrows for incoming and outgoing traffic, and clicking on it opens the log.
Also the logging can be helpful when there is a connection problem. So it is probably wise to show the log on the “Unable to connect”-screen.