First, drop-buttons are awesome. So happy to see these proliferate throughout core UIs! :)

However, if we are going to "hide" a bunch of the less-used administration links inside the drop-button, we need to make sure that the top one, the "most commonly used" one needs to be correct choice (or as close as we can get it). This issue is a place to track all the drop-buttons in core that need to be changed.

  1. Put the most-used op first.
  2. Sentence-case the dropbutton links.
  3. Make dropbuttons consistent with contextual links, tabs, etc.
  4. Put the useful things in dropbuttons.
  5. Make a call on whether delete ops should ever be in dropbuttons
DropButton 1. Good default 2. Sentence-case 3. Consistent 4. All the things 5. Delete op?
Blocks y N ? ? ?
Contact y y y y ?
Content Types y y y y ?
Fields y y y ? ?
Block Types y y y y ?
Menus y N y y ?
Menu Items y y y y ?
Vocabulary N N N N ?
Terms y N ? ? ?
Views y y y y ?
Content y y ? ? ?
People y y ? ? ?
Themes* N N N N ?

Related issues

#1824634: [meta] Dropbutton accessibility issues
*#1973322: Add drop-buttons to the appearance page

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Title: [meta] Update all the incorrect usages of drop-buttons in core » [meta] Consistent and correct usage of drop-buttons throughout core

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See also #1992730: Sentence-case dropbutton actions in the Views UI.

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Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

Seems the push is to use split buttons now, example #1899236: Add new Splitbutton render element to eventually replace Dropbutton so wonder if this can be closed?

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Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Closed (outdated)

There has been no reply to the question asked over a year ago to confirm that this is still a problem. Therefor, closing.

If there is work to do here, then either re-open the issue or open a new issue and reference this one. If the choice is to use this issue then add a comment change make sure to change the issue status to 'Active'.

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Crediting Jen for her UX audit of these issues.