Navigator functions gone

[Louis]

Hello @yankiara,

Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

@yankiara

• The delete button is hardly replaceable by a shortcut: I hate Gutenberg’s ALT-SHIFT-Z, and DEL cannot be used on text-based blocks because it deletes characters.
  I think Hide/show has no shortcut but I could be wrong.
  The old buttons should at least be accessible on HOVER, overwriting the right indicators.

We took a look at a lot of different navigators out there - while also looking at the feedback left here and through our support help - and found out that the majority of them do not include quick actions.

Add to that the difficulty of displaying these quick actions when the navigator can be resized / very nested blocks, and you find yourself with the difficulties we encountered in the past Cwicly navigator.

Shortcuts are preferred in these circumstances (there is also ⌘X to remove blocks).

We might also be adding actions to the current indicators (links etc… to make them directly editable) which makes positioning quick actions (delete etc…) much harder.

Of course, nothing is set in stone, and we’re always happy to review this.

@yankiara

The quick code is not quick any more Besides, its position is not remembered. And when you leave it open, selecting blocks doesn’t update it, so it is very misleading.
By the way I’m not sure that Quick code should be part of navigation… It is a quick way to have a style overview, but I think it would suit best in inspector panel.

You might want to try Alt + clicking the block in the navigator (or global class/linked block class in the class list of a block)
Nothing much quicker than that, although the quick in Quick Code does not imply fast access as a primary function.

A screencast of the position not being remembered would be welcome, as I can’t reproduce it on my end.

The whole point of this new persistent mode for the Quick Code is being able to move between different elements in the editor without losing the currently edited element in Quick Code. The same applies to a Quick Code for a Global Class or a Linked block, I’m not quite sure I see what you’re pointing out like issue here. The Quick Code has never been linked to the currently selected block.

Also, it isn’t part of the navigator, it is part of the menu context, the context being the block, not the navigator.

@yankiara

The “collapse/expand all” buttons have disappeared as well, although there is space left for them; dock/undock buttons are way less useful IMHO (at least in my workflow).

Another shortcut for this is available: Alt + L

@yankiara

The custom CSS / relative style right indicators make no sense to me here because we’re dealing with structure (contrarily to link indicator which is related to site structure); I think they should be moved to inspector panel instead.

I’ll let other users respond to this if they choose to. We haven’t received this kind of feedback until now, and I’m always willing to revisit this if necessary, although I do believe these are essential.
You’ll also notice that attributes have been added.

Cheers,