[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #23770: Restore 'Locations' meta box functionality as secondary tab in Menus UI

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#23770: Restore 'Locations' meta box functionality as secondary tab in Menus UI
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 Reporter:  DrewAPicture                     |       Owner:  lessbloat
     Type:  enhancement                      |      Status:  closed
 Priority:  normal                           |   Milestone:  3.6
Component:  Menus                            |     Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal                           |  Resolution:  fixed
 Keywords:  3.6-menus has-patch needs-codex  |
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Comment (by nhuja):

 I wanted to post this earlier but saw the ticket was closed. I strongly
 feel that moving existing functionality to different place is confusing. I
 was confused for a while and people I have worked with were to. I had 2
 users in WordPress.com who couldn't get the menu up. While I understand
 that if the user has a lot of menus, it looks disorganized but even for
 1-2 menus which 90% of the people will have, this is one extra step. BAD
 UI.

 If I switch themes (and not all themes have same menu name), the menu gets
 deselected from the Locations. Hence only default (Page) menu appears. It
 was easy to change it pre 3.6 because, it was on the same page. Now you
 have to click another page and select it there. Its one more step and for
 slow connections like me, working on LIVE site can take some more seconds.
 A good UI is not a good design. Its how easy you can get it to the end
 user. We should consider that. Its  just one little box and moving that
 entirely to another page doesn't really explain it.

 And another confusing thing was the Edit menu option. I first thought that
 was where you select the menu (location), until I read it carefully. These
 are small things on how many people these days feel WordPress is getting
 "complicated" than it should. Ask anyone.. :)

 Just posting my thoughts here. Thanks Lance for directing me to this page.

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