✨ Polishing the navigation redesign
Overview
This issue collects various visual refinements that need to be met before a broader rollout of the new navigation is ready for general availability.
Housekeeping
- Improve the speed of the navigation sidebar rendering → Super Sidebar Performance (#391738 - closed)
- Fix the blue focus outline in the navigation sidebar → !115124 (merged)
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🐞 Keyboard shortcuts don't work yet in the new na... (#393189 - closed) • Paul Gascou-Vaillancourt • 16.0 -
🐞 Choosing a page scrolls the sidebar to the top (#404661 - closed) • Thomas Hutterer • 16.4 -
🐞 Invite modal doesn't open in the create menu (#403736 - closed) • James Rushford • 16.0 - Contextual badges (counts) are not aligned to spec
- Keep context switcher fixed at the top on scroll (#404783 - closed) • Thomas Hutterer • 16.0
- Inset the focus state by 1px for navigation items (#404857 - closed) • James Rushford • 16.0 → !118598 (merged)
- Fix focus transition from search to avatar (#404858 - closed) • James Rushford • Next 1-3 releases
- Fix focus states on shortcuts (#404859 - closed) • James Rushford • Next 1-3 releases → !118758 (merged)
- Update homepage button styling (#404784 - closed) • Olena Horal-Koretska • 16.0 → !117138 (merged)
- Align dropdown position within super sidebar (#390930 - closed) • Paul Gascou-Vaillancourt • 16.0
- Update iconography colors (#406567 - closed) • Sam Beckham • 16.0
- Change the tooltip text for the navigation sidebar (!117286 - merged) • Austin Regnery • 16.0
- Prevent footer from overlaying sidebar items (#404775 - closed) • Unassigned • Backlog
- Change Security collection into a single page i... (#410137 - closed) • Unassigned • Next 4-6 releases
- Restructure the Admin Area to isolate collectio... (#410142 - closed) • Unassigned • Backlog
Breadcrumb
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🐞 Can't access the navigation sidebar when creating a new project - Make interacting with the navigation sidebar se... (#393468 - closed) • Scott de Jonge • 15.11
- Playing nice with...
- Right sidebar (ex. Issue page)
- Drawer (ex. Compliance report)
- Global alerts
- Broadcast messages
- Maintenance mode
- System header/footer
- Performance bar
Collections
- Adjust transition of expanding and collapsing i... (#404792 - closed) • James Rushford • Next 4-6 releases
- Auto collapse when expanding a different collec... (#404797 - closed) • Unassigned
- Fix collapsible item stylings (#404802 - closed) • Austin Regnery • 16.0
Context switcher
- Move the context switcher to a disclosure dropdown (!118217 - merged) • Paul Gascou-Vaillancourt • 16.0
- Fix styling of items in the context switcher area (#406271 - closed) • Unassigned • Next 1-3 releases
- Simplify editing shortcuts to projects and groups (#406270 - closed) • Thomas Hutterer • 16.0 → !117880 (merged)
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🐞 Frequent items edit mode delete button overlaps... (#404644 - closed) • James Rushford • 16.0 → !118162 (merged) -
🐞 Frequent projects broken image (#402242 - closed) • Kushal Pandya • 16.0 → gitlab-ui!3403 (merged) - [MVC] Context switcher opportunities for improv... (#405035 - closed) • Unassigned • 16.0
- Use "your" in context switcher to be more specific (!117159 - merged) • Austin Regnery • 15.11
- Update Admin link to match context (#406274 - closed) • Thomas Hutterer • 16.0 → !118346 (merged)
Pinned
- Add tooltips to buttons :hover for pin/unpin ac... (#406276 - closed) • Austin Regnery • 16.0
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🐞 Investigate and fix the draggable pinned item "... (#404598 - closed) • Unassigned • Next 4-6 releases
Your work
Mobile
References
Resource for desired interactions/animations: https://codepen.io/br4ndt/pen/ExRMdWj
Edited by Austin Regnery