Decide how we scale with large amounts of Block categories, Layouts, and Blocks in the IPE. [#2636520]

Currently the IPE UX seems to work o.k. with a dozen Block categories, a handful of Layouts and one row of Blocks per category. As production sites start using this, we'll need to come up with a UX that can handle any number of these elements.

This issue should track UX proposals and patches that relate to the large-scale UX problems. Mobile should be considered when implementing fixes as well.

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Comment #1

16 December 2015 at 19:49

samuel.mortenson created an issue. See original summary.

Comment #2

swentel CreditAttribution: swentel commented 16 December 2015 at 22:08

In Drupal 7, there was also the possibility to limit the plugins/layouts that were available to select. I guess this patch isn't in scope for that, but is that something that we'd like to have in the D8 version of panels as well ? (although atm I'm not sure exactly where that code lives in D7, but IIRC it's probably panels)

Comment #3

samuel.mortenson

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CreditAttribution: samuel.mortenson at Acquia commented 16 December 2015 at 23:14

I think it's appropriate to modify/group categories in this patch. For example, the "Help" block category likely only exists for the Help block, and should probably live in System. We could also group all default blocks as "Core", and remove some Blocks like "Main Content" which we know isn't appropriate for IPE. This seems like the right place for that too.