Clean up Phoenix bar.
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Description
A lot of very cool new functionality has been added, but this has had the consequence that the Phoenix menu bar (the bottom bar) is becoming very full. Before we make a new major release, I think we should try to clean this up (because it is potentially a breaking change, if clients have suppressed some of the interface options).
The default menu is defined here: https://github.com/HSF/phoenix/blob/main/packages/phoenix-ng/projects/phoenix-ui-components/lib/components/ui-menu/ui-menu.component.html
We still want to keep the main options easily accessible, so we need to balance a little having it compact and still usable.
Options could include:
- Move the dark/light theme into "View options"
- Orthographic/perspective could in principle go there too, but I think it should probably stay at the top level as it is very useful and you might want to rapidly click it off/on
- Browsers
- We could move Event collections, Event Browser, and Geometry Browser into one top level menu
Thoughts @sponce?
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Research direction
Start with packages/phoenix-ng/projects/phoenix-ui-components/lib/components/ui-menu/ui-menu.component.html, which defines the default menu. Review the current grouping and the proposed View options and Browsers groupings, then agree on a compact, usable arrangement that preserves the main options and accounts for clients that may have suppressed interface options.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- angular, typescript
- Domain
- design, frontend
- Issue type
- Refactor
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 38/100