Great idea.

But when there are a lot of the same icons, for instance in com_users, the icons doesn't really serve any UX benefits:

In com_content it's fine:

I'd much prefer we removed completely this stupid duplicated sidemenu

On 25 August 2014 15:50, Peter Lose notifications@github.com wrote:

Great idea.

But when there are a lot of the same icons, for instance in com_users, the
icons doesn't really serve any UX benefits:
[image: skaermbillede 2014-08-25 kl 16 46 19]
https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1738811/4031378/a1fd64a6-2c66-11e4-9994-a87abb748f76.png

In com_content it's fine:
[image: skaermbillede 2014-08-25 kl 16 49 08]
https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1738811/4031404/08121a8e-2c67-11e4-87ae-b3e795bd4cb4.png

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@brianteeman and only navigate through the top menu?

yes. That way we have more space on the screen to display things we need to
display. See http://issues.joomla.org/tracker/joomla-cms/2316

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@brianteeman https://github.com/brianteeman and only navigate through
the top menu?

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I really don't agree with the proposed changes in that PR. By removing the left menu from, for instance com_content, you increase the navigation time and the table UX isn't improved.

+1 to this.. Obviously the extension devs will need to make sure that they use different icons.. Also disagree on removing the left menu.. Its very handy to navigate.. Maybe we can have an option to collapse it so that you can have more screen space when you need it ?

Being able to collapse it and remember that it is collapsed (so on every page refresh it stays as it was) would be very nice.

Yeah. Collapsable menu like Jomsocial as it can be seen in attached screenshot will be good, if it remembers that it is collapsed as @roland-d said.

See
http://multi-level-push-menu.make.rs/

The collapse idea in combination with some localstorage would be fine :)

+1 for collapsible. That would be a fantastic addition.

I have added a proof-of-concept PR #4197 to add collapsible to the articles list.

Now that the collapsible sidebar has been committed this PR no longer works. Are you able to look at the code again and update it

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