Use contextual links [#1388660]

I'm not sure if this has any impact on the responsive design or not... I don't know enough about responsive design yet... but I wanted to see if there was any interest in using contextual links to render things like "node, edit, devel, etc." as contextual links instead of tabs.

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Comment #1

JurriaanRoelofs CreditAttribution: JurriaanRoelofs commented 30 December 2011 at 09:36

Hi, I think hiding those links makes it more difficult for novice users to figure out basic tasks like editing content. It is possible but this is something that should be researched with usability studies first. If there is demand for this I guess it could be an option in the base theme, of maybe a module.

I'm afraid it would not benefit usability though. Do you know any other systems/CMS that have interface like this?
Props for thinking outside the box though!

Comment #2

caschbre CreditAttribution: caschbre commented 30 December 2011 at 13:29

The company I work for does a lot of Oracle UCM (the old Stellant), Sharepoint, Percussion, and Ektron implementations. Each one handles how the user manages content differently. In some the user can simply double click on the content and it turns into a wysiwyg editor on the spot. Others require the contributors to go to an admin screen.

A request I get a lot for Drupal sites is to remove those tabs from the node displays. This forces users to go to admin pages or a custom views page to see a list of content, etc... or they need to know to add /edit to the URL.

My latest client likes the contextual links that appear for blocks. That makes sense for them so they had asked about doing the node display tabs as contextual links.

It would be awesome if that was an theme setting.

Comment #3

JurriaanRoelofs CreditAttribution: JurriaanRoelofs commented 30 December 2011 at 14:01

Assigned:	Unassigned	» JurriaanRoelofs
Status:	Active	» Postponed

I'll investigate this further when I work on Arctica 1.1. The tabs were actually bugging me in the TouchPro theme, where the make the theme mis-align and look out of place.