[wp-meta] [Making WordPress.org] #4901: Handbooks: Improve menus design

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#4901: Handbooks: Improve menus design
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 Reporter:  felipeloureirosantos                 |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement                          |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                               |   Milestone:
Component:  Handbooks                            |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch needs-design has-        |
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Comment (by coffee2code):

 I've introduced a bit of a compromise to the two proposals above. I
 removed all but the left borders, so that reduces some of the visual
 clutter in the menu while providing a visual indicator of hierarchy in
 addition to indentation.

 Bear in mind the changes have currently only been applied to the handbooks
 on https://developer.wordpress.org and not to the team P2 handbooks.

 Thoughts on these changes?


 Replying to [comment:4 felipeloureirosantos]:
 > Something that could be great is structuring elements to be numbered
 sequentially...

 I would be against numbering menu items for two reasons:

 1. The handbooks are constantly in flux. Numbering each menu item would
 produce a means of referring to a given item, e.g. "click on 4.2.2", which
 could quite easily change.
 2. The current screen width devoted to the menu can be tight in some
 cases, especially long names nested in the hierarchy, which would be the
 ones most affected by having numbering prepended to them.

 Replying to [comment:2 dufresnesteven]:
 > I also think having the 'arrows' on the right is troubling because
 usually they help to define hierarchy but on the right they don't support
 that function and just identify whether the section is open and closed.

 To be fair, the intent of the arrows was never to indicate hierarchy at
 all, simply to indicate the item has subchildren and to toggle the display
 of the sub-children (with the arrow indicating if they are currently
 expanded or not). For the same reason given above (!#2), I'm not in favor
 of moving the arrows to the left—they'd require more horizontal space for
 display and menu name alignment, and we don't have the space to spare in
 the current design.

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