I have concerns about the usability of this UI too. If the body of a request is very long, then it will take a long time to scroll down to the next item. And forcing the user to open and close each request to see its body makes them more difficult to scan.
As an alternative, I wonder if there's a way to bring this UI into the main body of Console. It could take over the area currently occupied by the two panels. You could select multiple items from history and hit "Apply" to generate a new tab containing all of the requests you selected. This would be enabled by https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/10095.
Per https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/39341#issuecomment-504744394 we should find a way to make the history panel more usable on a laptop screen and below. This is the proposal from the design team:
I have concerns about the usability of this UI too. If the body of a request is very long, then it will take a long time to scroll down to the next item. And forcing the user to open and close each request to see its body makes them more difficult to scan.
As an alternative, I wonder if there's a way to bring this UI into the main body of Console. It could take over the area currently occupied by the two panels. You could select multiple items from history and hit "Apply" to generate a new tab containing all of the requests you selected. This would be enabled by https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/10095.