Problem/Motivation

It has been decided to replace the Drupal core Toolbar at the top, with a Navigation solution to the left in #3364215: Redesign the toolbar and https://www.drupal.org/project/navigation.

Some users may prefer to keep the Toolbar at the top, and find the new Navigation in the left side not ideal ...

Steps to reproduce

Try the new Drupal core Navigation module, and find that the existing Drupal core Toolbar module with Admin Toolbar contrib module works best.

Proposed resolution

What's the future of Admin Toolbar if Toolbar in Drupal core is removed? I hope it can carry on here in Admin toolbar, or maybe Drupal core Toolbar module can move to https://www.drupal.org/project/toolbar?

Remaining tasks

User interface changes

API changes

Data model changes

Comments

ressa created an issue. See original summary.

dalemoore’s picture

dalemoore commented

I'm curious about the future of Admin Toolbar/Toolbar as well with work on Navigation in Core. There is also a submodule called "Navigation Top Bar" that isn't yet feature-complete that will offer the navigation at the top, not on the left. What Navigation can do is more advanced than what Toolbar can, allowing to add blocks into the nav area.

anruether’s picture

anruether
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Location Bonn
commented

> There is also a submodule called "Navigation Top Bar" that isn't yet feature-complete that will offer the navigation at the top, not on the left.

Actually it does not offer "the navigation at the top", rather it is an additional region where local tasks and other contextual actions like workflow might be moved to.

As far as I know, the navigation layout only supports a special type of menu block.

dydave’s picture

dydave commented

Seems there is some activity around this topic and issues, see:
#3421969: [PLAN] New Navigation and Top Bar to replace Toolbar Roadmap: Path to Stable.

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ressa
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Related issues: +#3484850: [meta] Tasks to deprecate Toolbar module

Thanks for sharing @dydave, I asked about it in that issue.

Perhaps, if the handling of menu items in Drupal core will be moved from Toolbar to Navigation, Admin Toolbar should be rebuild on top of Navigation instead of Toolbar, and offer an administration menu placed at the top of the screen, working much like the current one, with the same features?

Or if Drupal core Toolbar becomes a contrib module, Admin Toolbar could simply carry on, only based on the contrib module Toolbar?