Global Menu settings are confusing [#503778]

Comment	File	Size	Author
#5	menu-settings.png	31.82 KB	eigentor
#3	menu.admin_.inc_.patch	3.42 KB	berenddeboer

Comment #1

berenddeboer CreditAttribution: berenddeboer commented 27 June 2009 at 09:12

Issue tags:

-#d7ux

+ui-text, +#d7uxsprint

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Comment #2

berenddeboer CreditAttribution: berenddeboer commented 27 June 2009 at 10:19

The description for the advanced option is very confusing, and hard to explain. It is theme dependent as well. This feature should be removed from Drupal and themes who support a "submenu" should pull out the child links themselves, not really on this confusing ability.

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Comment #3

berenddeboer CreditAttribution: berenddeboer commented 27 June 2009 at 10:24

Status:

Active

» Needs review

File	Size
menu.admin_.inc_.patch	3.42 KB

Patch from UX Sprint 2009 where we tried to improve the descriptions.

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Comment #4

eigentor CreditAttribution: eigentor commented 27 June 2009 at 10:25

Status:

Needs review

» Active

The terms "Main links" and "Secondary links" are very confusing. Especially as you definitely will mix it up with the terms "Main menu" and "Secondary menu" that stand for something different. We should think about a different naming. We left it for now.

The user has to immediately understand what those terms mean and where these menus appear on a page. A small descriptive graphic might help.

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Comment #5

eigentor CreditAttribution: eigentor commented 27 June 2009 at 10:31

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menu-settings.png	31.82 KB

Screenshot for the changes that are in the patch

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Comment #6

eigentor CreditAttribution: eigentor commented 27 June 2009 at 10:31

Status:

Active

» Needs review

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Comment #7

Dries CreditAttribution: Dries commented 27 June 2009 at 12:00

I thought Berend advocated that the advanced option was to be removed?

Reading the text on the screenshot, I'd say it is still very confusing. ;-)

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Comment #8

27 June 2009 at 12:05

Status:

Needs review

» Needs work

The last submitted patch failed testing.

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Comment #9

kika CreditAttribution: kika commented 27 June 2009 at 14:05

Issue tags:

-#d7uxsprint

+d7uxsprint

fixing tag

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Comment #10

eigentor CreditAttribution: eigentor commented 27 June 2009 at 16:23

Dries: Well, we opt for the Advanced option to be removed. But since this is a different patch (themes should pull out the secondary level from primary or secondary links themselves). But since this patch is not there (I think we have to create an issue for this) we left it in for now.

But maybe we should just throw it out - It could be enough if it is explained in the documentation somewhere.

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Comment #11

kika CreditAttribution: kika commented 27 June 2009 at 18:21

We are planning to shoot this page dead.
"Default menu for new content" moved under content type editing in #351249: Finer control over the Parent Menu select box and "Source for the x" should go away in #503810: Convert primary and secondary menus to blocks

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Comment #12

Bojhan CreditAttribution: Bojhan commented 5 July 2009 at 12:24

Status:

Needs work

» Postponed

See the other issue.

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Comment #13

rickvug CreditAttribution: rickvug commented 7 July 2009 at 02:32

Issue tags:

+Usability

@kika - you beat me to it in #11. By converting menus into blocks and adding finer control over the parent menu select box the global menu settings page can be dropped completely. This would be a huge win.