UX of showing / hiding Better Admin Bar was better and more customizable in v3

  • Resolved abitofmind

    (@abitofmind)


    1 year, 11 months ago

    ## Version 3.4 has these settings:

    – Top hover area height (if autohide): Default 10px
    – Hover delay: 250ms
    – Remove Admin Bar Gap (the upper 32px): I set this to ON. As an admin/editor I want to experience the website normally and show the admin menu only on demand.

    ## My 3.4 setup and experience

    – Top hover area: As low as 6-8px.
    – Hover delay: Really low like 200ms or less.
    → ? Only when voluntarily moving up really near the viewport border you get the admin menu. And it shows/hides instantly. Nice!

    ## The somewhat disappointing 4.x experience

    Hover area is hardcoded to 32px

    – ? As such very often in conflict with normal menu interactions.
    – To avoid unintentional admin menu kick-in, you have to set a very long delay (2000ms) and then also never spend more than that time in the upper 32px of the normal menu.
    – The worst combination of both the old settings.

    ?? Hover area should be a user preference again. Was my personal highlight!

    Hover delay affected both the duration for showing and hiding in 3.4

    – In 4.x Delay and Animation Speed seem to only effect the transition from hidden to shown.
    – The Delay and Animation Speed from shown to hidden seems to be hardcoded (too long for my taste).

    ?? The settings should either affect both the in and out transition or offer 4 separate options (shown in their sequence order for best user comprehension)

    Delay from hidden → shown: 500ms
    Animation from hidden → shown: 250ms
    Animation from shown → hidden: 250ms
    Delay from shown → hidden: 500ms

    • This topic was modified 1 year, 11 months ago by abitofmind.
    • This topic was modified 1 year, 11 months ago by abitofmind.
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  • Plugin Author David Vongries

    (@davidvongries)

    I remember this being quite a challenging task when refactoring the plugin. We tried quite a few things to improve the implementation which we thought we did. You may want to remove the settings you’ve implemented and play around with the default configuration and take it from there.

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