Update the design for the right sidebar on content creation page

Doh! Does not apply. This is looking better though. I think the filename 'block.css' is too generic. Can we name it to match the 'block-list-secondary' class?

Also, can we remove the inner shadow? It doesn't really fit with the Seven visuals

Took a quick look at this, but the testing part seems to have moved the css files, or the way it is done, so I got stuck.

Re rolling #5.

Re-rolled & updated patch with 9, #10 & #11

A small idea in #2487067: Reduce ugliness of sidebar.

index be2759f..4473860 100644
--- a/core/tests/Drupal/Tests/Core/Extension/ThemeHandlerTest.php

--- a/core/tests/Drupal/Tests/Core/Extension/ThemeHandlerTest.php
+++ b/core/tests/Drupal/Tests/Core/Extension/ThemeHandlerTest.php

+++ b/core/tests/Drupal/Tests/Core/Extension/ThemeHandlerTest.php
@@ -171,6 +171,46 @@ public function testRebuildThemeData() {

@@ -171,6 +171,46 @@ public function testRebuildThemeData() {
 
     $this->assertEquals('twig', $info->info['engine']);
     $this->assertEquals(array('seven/global-styling'), $info->info['libraries']);
+    $this->assertEquals(array(), $info->info['libraries']);

This patch contains changes to tests that are from another patch, that's why the tests are failing

Uploading a patch with cleaned tests.

This sidebar seems too boxed in at the moment. In exploring options I took cues from the modules page. Instead of one solid boxed-in column with sections separated by grey lines we can give it some more air by removing the thin grey borders by white space. We don't necessarily need visual difference between a closed and an open section, so I simplified that as well.

Not sure yet about the best background color yet, but looks like a promising direction. Thoughts?

@yoroy Thanks for working on this, the "Place blocks" title and search input feel very separate from the blocks now. I think that it needs some kind of container to associate them. Maybe we can take inspiration from the config page panels, that contains a and groups?

My apologies this is still assigned to me and didn't even realise this as this was my first attempt to re-roll. This will probably need some usability expert.

Hi,
I have created a patch to solve the issue mentioned

Hi,
I have re created a patch to solve the issue mentioned

I guess this patch should be move into 8.2.x that is why automated testing fail in #36.

I'm going to take the attention back to comment #31 where the UI design was under discussion again.
No more patches for the meantime please :-)

@yoroy did you have any feedback for #32?

@yoroy What do you think? It looks a bit barebones to me

Updated the issue summary a bit: the right sidebar for Blocks ui was rolled back (is not in core). Most of the feedback in #32 doesn't apply anymore.

@Bojhan I agree it looks sparse, that's what you get when I design it :)

We have something similar at /admin/structure/types/manage/article/form-display, where if you expand the config options for a single field (click the far right cog icon) we show that expanded row with a blue background. I don't think it's a great look, but we could apply a similar approach here:

related: the whole thing starts to look a lot friendlier with some rounded corners:

Let's move this to the Seven contrib module issue queue. Core is now using Claro by default, which has a really nice looking sidebar.

+1 Moving it to Seven.