[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #65220: Toolbar: Show site title always even on mobile viewport, by moving shortcut menus under site menu

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#65220: Toolbar: Show site title always even on mobile viewport, by moving shortcut
menus under site menu
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 Reporter:  fushar                    |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement               |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                    |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Toolbar                   |     Version:
 Severity:  normal                    |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch has-unit-tests  |     Focuses:  ui, css
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Comment (by Joen):

 Appreciate the attention to the adminbar. It's gone unloved for quite a
 while, it's good to see some energy applied to it.

 For this issue in particular, I like the general direction it's heading.
 It feels, paired with the other work you've done, like it's systematising
 teh adminbar a bit; logo, site title, contextual actions, command palette,
 plugin actions, account/profile.

 In this case, it does feel valid to me to hide many of the contextual
 actions on mobile to fit the site title. This is also in response to
 @westonruter who makes a good point about the browser URL bar. Some
 feedback I've seen in various support sessions over the years, were when
 power-users had multiple WordPress installs and tabbed between them, then
 accidentally uploaded private information to the wrong WordPress site
 because there wasn't clear enough visual distinction between the tabs. It
 is for that reason I appreciate some attention to this.

 However there are a couple of details to get right, which feel not quite
 right yet. Whether they need to happen as part of this issue or followups,
 I'll defer to more veteran core contributors. But coming to mind:

 1. **Showing the site title helps, but showing a site logo would help even
 more**. The "house" dashicon tells us nothing, and there's no reason that
 couldn't be the site logo instead. This would also be helpful in cases
 where we simply have to elide the site title in order to fit it.
 2. As a heavy WordPress user myself, I find myself not missing the plus
 button, or the comment button on mobile: I'd want to enter the dashboard
 proper in order to engage with that. But on the frontend, I might miss the
 Edit button. There may be a way, though spacings overall (not in this PR)
 to fit not only the command palette icon, but the contextual edit button,
 while still having both site logo and site title. This is not strongly
 felt, but it's the only button I might miss here. Putting it inside the
 submenus might also be fine in practice, so it can be a fine place to
 start.
 3. I'm missing the WordPress logo as a fix-point. This is almost certainly
 something to look at separately, but my mental appraoch to the adminbar is
 it's WordPress' answer to the Apple app-bar. Top of MacOS shows you the
 Apple logo, then contextual actions, a spacer, then the equivalent of
 plugins actions. Honestly the WordPress adminbar could/should be the same,
 and for that reason I'd not only want to retain the logo, but actually
 move it to the left of the burger menu. It's WordPress, it's always there,
 but the burger menu then collapses the contextual items, so hierarchically
 the menu doesn't shift around even on mobile.

 What do you think?

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/65220#comment:3>
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