Make the footer always visible without having to scroll on smaller screens

[Steffengreiner]

What are you missing?

Currently, the footer is not always immediately accessible within the application but hidden behind a scrollbar if the content within the application takes too much space. I attached some examples from my macbook air screen:

Why do you need a solution?

Having to scroll to see the footer is non-intuitive and the content scrolling should also be independent of the footer. (It's sad if i scroll down just to see the footer)

Ideas

This is actually not trivial! Vaadin does not provide a native footer solution, which is why we currently rely on having the footer inside the content-area of the application.
Sadly, since we employ the vaadin app-layout, we don't have a way to redesign the applayout structure entirely from scratch.(The navbar is contained within the applayout and there is no footer slot)
This means to properly extract the footer, we need to redesign how the parent layout is built.
An additional benefit here would be that we can finally tackle overflow properly for all our components in a harmonized manner.

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[Steffengreiner]

After discussion with @sven1103, Due to the complexity of this issue, it was agreed to refactor this issue to feature the documentation linkage more prominently as a first step within the application.