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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.

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

Mobile

Smaller polishing before the rename (already done):
- Flash of half-transparent black at the beginning of viewer open should be white instead. https://github.com/nextcloud/text/pull/1907
- Title and icons on top right shouldn’t fade out
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
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.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
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