[keycloak-dev] menu refactor, removed breadcrumbs

Stan Silvert ssilvert at redhat.com
Fri Aug 15 08:32:07 EDT 2014


On 8/14/2014 6:47 PM, Bill Burke wrote:
> Ok, application and oauth client breadcrumbs added back.  I fixed the
> add role problems.
Thanks Bill!  Looks like it's working now.

>
> On 8/14/2014 6:01 PM, Bill Burke wrote:
>>
>> On 8/14/2014 5:52 PM, Stan Silvert wrote:
>>> On 8/12/2014 11:11 AM, Bill Burke wrote:
>>>> Stian mentioned months and months ago that he thought breadcrumbs were
>>>> redundant.  So...I removed them.
>>> If it doesn't cause other problems, I'd like to request the
>>> reinstatement of the bread crumbs.
>>>
>>> I've found that the breadcrumbs are not always redundant.   Any time you
>>> choose something from a list and then from there you need to use another
>>> page with a list, you can get lost and need a lot of clicks to get
>>> back.  I think the only time this is a problem right now is when adding
>>> a Role to an Application.  But it will likely come up again in the future.
>>>
>>> Let's say I need to add several roles to an application.  I'm in
>>> Applications --> MyApp --> Roles --> Add Role.
>>>
>>> To add a second role without breadcrumbs, I need to go all the way out
>>> and do several clicks:
>>> Click Applications on lefthand menu
>>> Find my App again in the (possibly long) list
>>> Click on Roles again
>>> Click Add
>>>
>>> If I still had breadcrumbs this task would always be two clicks instead
>>> of four or more.  Also, forcing you to go all the way out to the
>>> lefthand menu and re-navigate the list seems wrong.
>>>
>> Thanks stan, i'll look into stuff and your role bug.
>>



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