Gin changes order of Admin menu items

Created on 14 March 2022, almost 3 years ago
Updated 30 July 2024, 5 months ago

Problem/Motivation

This issue is a basically a copy of πŸ› Order of toolbar menu items is changed after updating to 1.0.0-beta18 RTBC created separately here so that both Gin and Gin Toolbar can be patched.

The order of the menu items is changed.

Was: Content > Structure > Appearance > Extend > People > Configuration > Reports > Help

Now: Content > Structure > Appearance > Extend > People > Reports > Configuration > Help

Per the comment by @saschaeggi in the related issue, this was a desired change:

... But in our A/B Test (with content editors from various clients) found that it was easier for them to find the configuration as it was always 'at the end' of the navigation (especially for the vertical variant). So they don't have to 'scan' the navigation for the config item. That's why this change was made firsthand.

It seems to makes sense to at least let sites opt out of this behavior so that the order is determined by the menu admin UI.

Steps to reproduce

Upgrade from 1.0.0-beta17 to 1.0.0-beta18

Proposed resolution

Ultimately, if the Gin team feels this is a necessary change, maybe it should be done by changing the actual weights of the menu items so that Drupal core functionality is not ignored and site admins could control it?

For now, we could add a configuration setting for this.

Remaining tasks

  1. Create patch
  2. Test
  3. Merge changes

User interface changes

New config field added to settings form.

✨ Feature request
Status

RTBC

Component

Code

Created by

πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈUnited States jrb Raleigh-Durham Area, NC, USA

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