"Local tasks" is hard to understand

FYI I just created another issue to adjust Local tasks to allow editors faster editing of content – 📌 Improve UX for Local Tasks in Toolbar Active

vasantha deepika → made their first commit to this issue’s fork.

Replace "Local Tasks" with "Quick Links" to make navigation more intuitive and user-friendly for non-technical users as well. Raised an MR #108

Thank you for that suggestion. However, as with "Local Tasks," "Quick Links" does not imply it relates to the currently-displayed node.

What about "This Node"?

Although "node" is also jargony.

"This Page" if it's content?
"This User" if it's a user page?

Hi @charles belov, I have thought to rename the display of 'Local tasks' to 'Contextual Tools', raised the MR as well for it.
The reason for selecting this name is that it clearly conveys that the menu provides tools specifically related to the current context.
Please review and share your opinion on it.

@arijit acharya Thank you for your suggestion. Again, "Contextual" strikes me a jargony and not meaningful to the average content editor. The simpler, yet meaningful, language the better. I don't think of pages as being a "context", I think of it as being the current page. I don't think of users as being a context, I think of it as being a user.

I'd really like to see something simple and straightforward like:

This page
This user

I also don't think of the various actions available as "tools."

Thanks a lot everyone for all the contributions!

Created a new merge request at #15 as an attempt to implement the changes suggested in the issue summary and the previous exchanges.

See resulting screenshots:
Node page: /node/NID

 

User page: /user/UID

I personally think this is a very good idea and should definitely make things clearer for less tech-savvy users.
Therefore, I wouldn't be opposed to getting something like this included in the module, if this issue could get enough interest.

Any comments, testing feedback or questions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!

Thanks for your effort @dydave! I had to think about this for a longer while and also asked other people what they could easily understand to navigate around easily.

New suggestions that I really like and never saw in Drupal before:

• Page Tools
• Page Actions
• Quick Actions
• Actions

I like Page Actions, as that most closely describes what the menu contains and will allow editors to accomplish. It says that the menu pertains to the current page and will allow you to do things with that page.

Page Tools would be my second choice.

"Quick Actions" and "Actions" don't work for me because it is not clear that they apply to the current page.

Tested the patch and it works well. The label updates appropriately based on the type of page you're viewing and falls back to "Local Tasks" when needed. This is a nice improvement for usability and should make things clearer for non-technical users. Marking this RTBC.

Tested the patch on simplytest.me, and I'm not seeing the local tasks menu.

Steps:
1. Go to https://simplytest.me/
2. In the project name Field type admin
3. Choose admin_toolbar from the auto suggest
4. In the version drop down, choose 3.x–Dev (I also tried 3.6.1, with the same result.)
5. Click advanced options
6. Leave Drupal core at 11.2.1
7. In the patch field, paste https://git.drupalcode.org/project/admin_toolbar/-/merge_requests/127.patch
8. Click Launch Sandbox
9. Copy log before it redirects to the site
10. Locate 127.patch in the log

Expected and actual results:

6876a2366cd631d7cc96a161# /bin/sh -c cd stm && composer patch-add drupal/admin_toolbar "STM patch 127.patch" "https://git.drupalcode.org/project/admin_toolbar/-/merge_requests/127.patch" --no-update
Gathering patches from patch file.
The patch was successfully added.

11. Log into the site as admin

Expected result: I am on the admin user page /user/1. I see the following menus, not necessarily in this sequence:

• Manage
• This User
• Shortcuts
• admin
• Announcements

Actual result: I am on the admin user page /user/1. I see the following menus:

• Manage
• Shortcuts
• admin
• Announcements
• Edit

12. Go to /admin/config/user-interface/admin-toolbar

Expected and actual result: I see the default options for the admin toolbar module, indicating to me that the admin toolbar module is active.

13. Create a new basic page (Content, Add content, Basic page, type "test" in title field, Save)

Expected result: /node/1 has the following menu items:

• Manage
• This Content
• Shortcuts
• admin
• Announcements

Actual result: /node/1 has the following menu items:

• Manage
• Shortcuts
• admin
• Announcements
• Edit