[JENKINS-71578] allow making sidepanel sticky #8269

mawinter69 · 2023-07-14T09:20:06Z

Having a sticky sidepanel allows pages with only few links but longer content easier navigation.

Apply stickiness to PluginManager.

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Manually visit PluginManager
Sidepanel sticks when scrolling down so all links stay accessible all the time.
Configure a job -> sidepanel is still sticky

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Having a sticky sidebar not only for app bars allows pages with only few links but longer content easier navigation

daniel-beck

Needs to be accompanied by (plugin) developer guidance when to use this to prevent a mess of arbitrary choices.

Should not be used on extensible pages like for User, otherwise scrolling makes later entries inaccessible. (It's fairly unlikely to matter for User, but it's an extensible sidepanel nonetheless.)

mawinter69 · 2023-07-14T14:31:06Z

The non scrolling is already a problem now. Just go to configure job and make the browser window very small and the lower links are gone.
So maybe we should add some css to allow it to scroll if required

daniel-beck · 2023-07-14T14:40:46Z

already a problem now

While small windows will hide sidepanel entries for config forms, it's the same 5 or so entries every time, and they're only for navigation inside the same page (something you can also accomplish by scrolling), not to go somewhere else. User and everything Actionable has an unbounded number of sidepanel entries, and those links go elsewhere with usually no alternative.

So maybe we should add some css to allow it to scroll if required

Would be an improvement in any case I think 👍

Which leaves when to use which. If scrolling sidepanels will be able to handle arbitrary numbers of entries nicely, and are better, why should this be optional, and opt-in?

when to use it and when not

mawinter69 · 2023-07-14T19:48:34Z

tested this on a job. When adding a overflow: auto and a scrollbar is shown, the widget fills up to the scrollbar and then when hovering the navigation arrows are missing. Can be overcome by adding padding to the sidepanel but this will increase the gap between side and main panel. And scrollbar-gutter is not supported on Safari 😞

janfaracik · 2023-08-16T08:47:37Z

Would it be possible to move <div id="side-panel" class="app-page-body__sidebar"> from layout.jelly into side-panel.jelly and that way we could do away with the JS?

mawinter69 · 2023-08-17T11:24:17Z

Would it be possible to move <div id="side-panel" class="app-page-body__sidebar"> from layout.jelly into side-panel.jelly and that way we could do away with the JS?

done
A minor difference would be if someone creates a two column layout but is not including a sidepanel, then the div is not generated which might be expected when enabling YUI debug mode.

timja

LGTM

github-actions · 2023-08-21T21:25:57Z

Please take a moment and address the merge conflicts of your pull request. Thanks!

timja · 2023-12-17T14:46:59Z

/label ready-for-merge

This PR is now ready for merge, after ~24 hours, we will merge it if there's no negative feedback.

Thanks!

[JENKINS-71578] allow making sidebar sticky

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Having a sticky sidebar not only for app bars allows pages with only few links but longer content easier navigation

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no sticky for users

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Move app bar for plugins #8376

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