briancwald
/admin/structure/block could use improvement
I noticed that the Block layout page doesn't have a lot of specific Material Admin styling, and I think we could do some improvements there. Not sure how far we want to go but small tweaks would go a long way.
I made some improvements to tables that help this page out. I am not convinced that "region titles" should be blue as it's a bit harsh but it definitely needs a defined separator.
@briancwald Maybe we can style this page to look more like a list of collections, instead of a table? Then each region would have some margin from eachother, which might be nice.
@mortenson I thought about that, but I felt that it was an anti-pattern for collections because you can move items across sections in the table drag state.
@briancwald It might feel awkward, yeah. As a user I may not assume that items could be dragged across sections. The ideal UI for this would be if the regions were displayed in a similar way to how they look in the frontend (i.e. sidebars are on the side), but we can't really do that.
Ive spent some time investigating some options for improving efficiencies with data tables in general, and I have been looking at introducing a tray to support details for table cells. I think this page is a great place to test it out.
THis is what I am thinking:
Pros:
- The right amount of space for the job
- Mobile friendly
- Potentially could leverage outside in toolbar?
Cons:
- Introducing toolbar may be cumbersome?
- Uncertain if we can access all the info to display on the same page load?
