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Unified header

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2. developing design enhancement upstream
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Description

  • Combine viewer header and the text formatting menubar (similar to how it is done in Nextcloud Office now)
  • Combine the Share icon and the avatars into one overlapped thing. When we have avatars, we don’t need a share icon at all, and they don’t need individual clickable area – all can open the sidebar. (Mockup in the works)
  • For Shared links, even put the controls in the blue header bar – see Dropbox Paper. (Mockup in the works)

Here are the mockups:

Unified bar Viewer + Text when logged in

We should also combine the Share icon and the avatars into one overlapped thing. When we have avatars, we don’t need a share icon at all, and they don’t need individual clickable area – all can open the sidebar.
Text app desktop logged in header

For Shared links, even put the controls in the blue header bar

Desktop
Text app share link header bar desktop
Mobile
Text app header mobile new

Smaller polishing before the rename (already done):

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Research direction

Start with the viewer header and text formatting menubar, then compare the logged-in and shared-link mockups in the issue, including desktop and mobile layouts. The work is done when the headers and sharing controls match the described unified-bar behavior, including the avatar and sidebar interactions.

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Assessment

Tech stack
javascript
Domain
design, frontend
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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