[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #29806: Focus (continued)

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#29806: Focus (continued)
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 Reporter:  avryl            |       Owner:
     Type:  task (blessed)   |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  4.1
Component:  Editor           |     Version:
 Severity:  normal           |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  ux-feedback ui-  |     Focuses:  ui, javascript, administration
  feedback                   |
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Comment (by johnrom):

 I personally think this needs to be a button. I don't think that fading
 out critical navigation items while a user is typing is a good thing all
 of the time. I've often found myself needing to click "Pages" in the
 middle of typing content, and having to click out of focus mode and wait
 for the animation to finish would be a bit much work for a UI feature that
 I did not request at that moment. I think there are times when someone
 will want to focus, and others where they may want all of the information
 at their fingertips.

 Plus, if you make this a button like full-screen is, then you won't have
 to worry about making the transitions as unobstrusive as possible, since
 the user will have requested the animation to happen. We can then take out
 of consideration the effect on users who did not request the effect, such
 as "this transition was too sudden / distracting"

 Additionally, interrupting CTRL+D(istraction-free) may be a good balance
 for users that use the feature a lot, though this would block bookmarks.
 Shift + F11 may be better for users used to Sublime Text and is currently
 unused in Chrome, but the interruption of function keys is questionable in
 the browser.

 For those who wish for the feature to happen automatically, I recommend
 adding a checkbox to Settings -> Writing, like "Enter Distraction-free
 mode on Editor Focus"

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/29806#comment:31>
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