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↔️ Make app order configurable #4917
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Edit by @jancborchardt with spec:
- In general, remember that regular users rarely change anything. As such this is a feature for quite advanced people and it is an investment to maintain and test this properly.
- The app sorting we talk about should be purely user-side. Admins already have means to shuffle apps around, either in the code or using the apporder app. Also, admins should not dictate the personal order of things in your Nextcloud.
- Moving apps should happen via drag&drop directly in the top bar.
- For keyboard accessibility, we could also think about making it possible to move an app by focusing it, then using the arrow keys (if need be with Ctrl or Shift as modifier). Is there a standard there?
- The default order still needs to make sense.
- The app which is sorted first should automatically be used as the default app.
- If an app disables the app which is sorted first (or if it breaks after update) the next app should simply take its place.
- "Reset to default" isn’t really necessary, as you can simply drag something back.
- Changing maximum of displayed apps via dragging the "More" button could be possible. But better to do it in a separate pull request.
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Admins should be able to
- set an default order for apps
- set, whether users should be allowed to change the order of the apps
If users are allowed to change the order by themself, this configuration should be handles via drag-and-drop in the app menu.
We could use https://github.com/juliushaertl/apporder/ as base ...
Follow up: juliusknorr/apporder#29
@juliushaertl @nextcloud/designers
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hitam4450 commentedon May 17, 2017
I certainly agree! 👍
Each user should be able to reaarange its app order resp. the default app at login !
radiantwave commentedon May 25, 2017
But only if allowed to! 😄
jancborchardt commentedon May 30, 2017
So this would be another cool modification of @juliushaertl to include in the core server. :)
Some considerations:
pixelipo commentedon Jun 2, 2017
Adding one more point to your considerations, @jancborchardt
jancborchardt commentedon Jun 3, 2017
@pixelipo in that case the next app should take its place, probably simplest solution. Maybe there should be some feedback, but that's a slightly different topic.
patschi commentedon Jun 4, 2017
Because of recent discussion in #5135 any handling of maximum shown apps could be take into consideration as well - fixed or even in a more dynamic way, maybe manageable for each user. For example by moving the "more apps"-toggle to the left/right to show less or more apps. Or may it be out-of-scope of this implementation? If so, we could at least keep it in mind for any upcoming versions.
jancborchardt commentedon Sep 12, 2017
@patschi that specifically is out of scope in general cause it's a very edge-case customization option which will mainly increase the amount of stuff we need to test and can possibly break. This, apart from the nicer UX, is a big reason why we reduce options and make the defaults great. :)
tomastd commentedon Dec 7, 2017
One question, how can a user reset a customized app ordering?
It would be nice to have a "reset to default" option, isn't it?
phlegx commentedon Apr 16, 2018
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jancborchardt commentedon Aug 30, 2023
Discussed with @AndyScherzinger and @karlitschek
@nextcloud/designers this would be ready for picking up for a mockup. :)
szaimen commentedon Aug 30, 2023
I can take this over :)
[-]Make app order configurable [/-][+]↔️ Make app order configurable[/+]szaimen commentedon Oct 19, 2023
🎉🎉🎉