This Plugin will provide a managed way of organising and customizing your sidebar items (Panels).

It will be a port over from existing work into a plugin.

You can see the existing work i've done for it here;
http://blogs.balupton.com/?skin=Lightality
Then Enable Javascript in the main column.

Although it will probably be for the v1.9 release, will the next release after v1.8, unless users are willing to apply hacks/patches to provide b2evolution with the required features needed.