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Top bar 2.0
No one likes the current top bar.
Let's address what is wrong with it now:
- Looks sad when it gets multiline, especially on mobile devices.
- It is hard to make all the entries fit one line along with user-related links (u hypha or login/register) and search bar.
What I want top bar 2.0 to have:
- Meaningful responsive design
- Everything fits
- Useful for navigation
Two-line approach
Here's what I though of. We have two lines:
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Link to the home hypha, search bar, user links. I'm sure there is a way to fit them all on any computer screen.
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Navigation links. More advanced than now, dropdowns supported maybe.
The dropdowns should work without JS. We have the tag for that:
<details>.
On mobile devices, it may look like that (top to bottom):
- Home hypha link
- Search bar
- Uh some collapsible menu
- User links
- The navigation links. Any collapsibles inside should be uncollapsed beforehand I guess.
Default navigation links
If we take this approach, we will have much more space for the navigation links. What do we put there? Not much, I guess.
- Recent changes
- List
- Random
- Admin panel, for admins only
Configuration
The current approach with the special hypha shall be demolished and forgotten. Perhaps.
The sidebar approach
What if we take all the navigation links and put them into a sidebar to the left of the hypha section?
Well, it is possible, but I wanted to put TOC there...
No one really liked the two-line approach, so it seems, but it will go to 1.3 nevertheless.
I may try to attempt to try to implement something else later, perhaps.
With localization added in 1.5, the top bar 2.0 should support multiple languages too
With localization added in 1.5, the top bar 2.0 should support multiple languages too
...And that would mean wiki-local l18n support. Oh boy!
Once #115 is done and we have the word Profile in our vocabulary, we can replace the current user's name in the topbar with the word Profile. That would fix the overflow problem with long names (Yogurt has complained about that once or twice).
Also, once #115 is done, there is no need to have the admin panel link in the top bar. We will just remove it.
Next, we can have URL /your-profile redirect to your profile. We can put this link into the default top bar link list (which is Recent changes, All hyphae, Random, Help now, by the way) and get rid of the special zone for the user links at all.
Then we can think of a better layout.
No, we should not remove the username from the header. It's important for the context.
Why not? What context? Isn't the wiki name and that emoji in the title not enough for the context?
That's not it. I like having my username displayed in the header at a glance, because I have different usernames across different wikis.
A possible redesign. The top bar becomes a sidebar in a wide viewport, like on the screenshot below. It will be possible once we get rid of the sibling sidebar for real, if that will ever happen.
On two-column and one-column layouts, what will happen? Dunno. Just an idea