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Custom padding

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
lua
Domain
devtools

Research direction

No file, test, or entry point is named. Start by locating the current dashboard configuration and checking the project history for the removed padding option, then establish the expected option behavior and verify the dashboard uses it.

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Description

It looks like the custom padding option was removed, can we have it back? I don't really like how it looks by default, so an option to customize it would be nice.

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