Please allow the Utility Panel to be toggled between horizontal and vertical layouts, like the Meta and Viewer Panels. As monitor aspect ratios keep getting wider and wider, I think this would be a better use of screen real estate.
Also want to add my vote to other requests for custom colors on the Utility Panel.
I'd like this as well. I don't make much use of the utility panel in the current configuration because the narrow strip at the bottom across the widescreen monitor isn't very useful.