[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #23450: Refactor menu item meta boxes as accordion

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#23450: Refactor menu item meta boxes as accordion
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 Reporter:  lessbloat                          |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement                        |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                             |   Milestone:  3.6
Component:  Menus                              |     Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal                             |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  3.6-menus needs-testing has-patch  |
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Comment (by chipbennett):

 Replying to [comment:21 lessbloat]:
 > Replying to [comment:19 chipbennett]:
 >
 > To clarify, more or less, what I'm hearing you say is: "I'm worried that
 with the move of theme locations from a meta box to checkboxes, that after
 changing themes, I'll have to select each menu individually to set the
 theme location, whereas before I could set all of the theme locations at
 once".
 >
 > Is that an okay summary?  Or have I missed something?

 Concerns:

 1. When assigning pre-defined custom menus to a Theme's defined Theme
 Locations, the process now requires considerably more steps, clicks, page
 refreshes, and time
 2. When looking at the "Select a menu" dropdown, there is no way to
 determine if all Theme locations have an associated custom menu assigned
 3. When editing a given menu, in the Theme Location field checkboxes,
 there is no indication that a given Theme Location already has a custom
 menu assigned to it
 4. With long-ish custom menus, the "Theme Locations" field is buried
 "beneath the fold", resulting in no initially visible UI for assigning the
 current menu to a Theme Location
 5. Overall, the page now seems to emphasize adding/editing custom menus,
 and seems to ''deemphasize'' assigning custom menus to Theme Locations,
 and the latter is arguably the more important role/task for `Appearance ->
 Menus`

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