"Hide if empy" checkbox on pane settings dialogue

Hi there,

I am wondering if it is possible to add a "Hide if empy" checkbox on pane settings dialogue.

I agree that usually people would hide empty pane, however, today I encounter a situation when I want an "empty pane" to be visible.

I am using the fivestar module. Users, including anonymous users, are allowed to vote while viewing a content. Now, the problem is when adding each field into separate pane, the pane of the fivestar field does not show up if no one voted yet. But how could anyone vote if the field is not visible in the first place??

Why would I want to do that (inserting each field into different pane)?

Lets say I want to insert a block between two fields (for example an advertisement block between a description field and the fivestar field), in this case I need to insert each field into different pane. And oops, the pane of the fivestar field does not show up because no one voted yet, which means it is "empty". This is the situation where a "hide if empty" checkbox would be handy!

For now, my temporary solution is to insert the full content of the node in one go into one pane.

Otherwise, panel coupled with page manager are the drupal modules I cannot live without, I really like them! Thanks alot and keep up the great work!

Regards,

Hajakely