[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #11817: Better Site Menu Management

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#11817: Better Site Menu Management
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 Reporter:  scribu          |       Owner:  scribu   
     Type:  task (blessed)  |      Status:  accepted 
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:  3.0      
Component:  General         |     Version:           
 Severity:  normal          |    Keywords:  has-patch
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Comment(by greenshady):

 Here's what I see as the biggest issue.

 With the current menu, there's 3 steps:

  * Select an item.
  * Drag into place on the menu.
  * Configure.

 With more of a widget-like system, there's 2 steps:

  * Drag item into place on the menu.
  * Configure.

 The latter is something that users are completely familiar with.  It
 works, and I haven't seen a lot of big debates on the widget system in the
 WordPress community since pre-2.8.

 > The whole issue is that, unlike most widgets, menu items aren't stand-
 alone entities. They're tied to another object on the site; or at least,
 that's the idea.

 If you break it down into the basic parts, they are essentially the same:

  * Container.
  * Items.
  * Container holds items.

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