[wp-testers] Re: Default actions for top-level admin menu items

[Elpie]

I agree with Kirk. Despite being familiar with the new interface I
still get caught out at least once a day when I unthinkingly click to
"expand" and end up with a new post screen. The expand button area is
too small for this fast-action worker and it seems to me that an
expand arrow could be incorporated into the top level menu if it were
changed to simply expand or contract the group of menu items.
Simplicity with increased usability would result.

I made the comment about the illogical top level menus in the survey.
I wonder if anyone is listening?

On Nov 14, 6:45 am, Kirk M <kmb4... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just personally here, I don't think the top level menus, when clicked,
> should do anything but expand that particular menu to expose that menu's
> choices. Seems kind of redundant for the top level menus to link to any
> particular page at all especially in the light of all the trouble the
> developers went through to make the new 2.7 menus expandable/flyout for
> easy access in the first place. To me, it's just an unneeded left-over
> from when the top level menus were strewn across the top of the Admin.
>
> On 11/12/2008 7:19 PM, Reid Beels wrote:
>
> > Hi there,
> > It occurs to me that the current default actions when clicking on top-level
> > menus in 2.7 are a bit counterintuitive. The menu titles refer to
> > collections of objects (Posts, Media, Links, etc) so I would expect that
> > clicking on them would lead the user to a list of objects in a given
> > collection. Instead, it leads to a form for adding new objects. I agree that
> > having quick access to the new post form is important, but given the
> > addition of the favorite action menu it seems that the 'edit' view would be
> > a more sensible default for the top-level menus.
> > Reid Beels