[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #28979: Customizer panels should have the same priority hierarchy as Sections

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#28979: Customizer panels should have the same priority hierarchy as Sections
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 Reporter:  mattwiebe                |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)             |      Status:  reopened
 Priority:  high                     |   Milestone:  4.0
Component:  Customize                |     Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal                   |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  ux-feedback needs-patch  |     Focuses:  ui
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Changes (by celloexpressions):

 * keywords:  ux-feedback => ux-feedback needs-patch
 * priority:  normal => high


Comment:

 Lots of great points here. I think the biggest thing is separating
 navigation from content; that would facilitate changes like what I
 proposed in #29158 to make the Customizer feel more like wp-admin. My
 remaining concern would be wasted vertical space within Customizer
 sections that only have one or two controls, but that's something that
 developers could adapt to.

 Unfortunately, we're far too late to consider any structural changes like
 dropping the accordion for 4.0. We're already planning on re-doing the
 Customizer on mobile in 4.1 (see #28784); I think it would be good to
 experiment with switching the accordion behavior to sliding as part of
 that effort. If that goes well, we could make that change for desktop
 users as well. Could you either comment on #28784 so that we remember to
 experiment with this there, or make a new ticket for experimenting with
 doing it everywhere? We'll definitely need to do user testing to confirm
 the UX theory, but it makes a lot of sense in theory.

 For this ticket - let's focus on '''design tweaks to help distinguish
 panels''', first, and then making a final decision about '''panel / top-
 level-section sorting''' and act accordingly. Let's split any other
 details out to their own appropriately prioritized tickets (see #29172 and
 #29174 so far). Keeping the minor design tweaks here since it directly
 relates to whether or not mixed sorting would work.

 Next step is to convert the appropriate part of my CSS dump into a more
 refined patch to implement [attachment:customize-panels-3-c.png]. And if
 any designers have suggestions to improve the color selections without
 getting crazy, we can do those here too.

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