Persistent List View tracking issue

[priethor]

The Persistent List View will benefit as well from the improvements done to the List View feature as collected in #29733

Milestone 1 - First implementation

• Persistent block navigator and hover indications on the Canvas Site Editing: Persistent block navigator and hover indications on the Canvas #27395

Milestone 2 - Refinement and usability enhancements

• Enable Drag and Drop Persistent List View: Enable Drag and Drop #29729
• Add to the Post Editor Persistent List View: Add to the Post Editor #29470, Persistent block navigator panel #22113, Post Editor: Persistent list view #31047
• Handle multi-selected blocks Persistent List View: Handle multi-selected blocks #29469
• Show the entire content of Query blocks Persistent List View: Show the entire content of Query blocks #29784
• Improve hover, focus, select styles to make the focus clear in relation to the canvas Persistent List View: Update hover, focus, select styles to make the focus clear in relation to the canvas #29467
• Add a way to focus back to the sidebar via keyboard Persistent List View: Add a way to focus back to the sidebar via keyboard #29466
• Scroll to show the selected block in List View when selecting a block in the editing canvas Scroll to show the selected block in List View when selecting a block in the editing canvas #30432
• List View: Explore Naming Blocks #33583 (In progress: Custom labelling/naming of blocks in List View #42605)

Milestone 3 - Further improvements.

• Merge the list view and the document outline Merge the block navigation and the document outline in the same popover/panel #14956
• Improve interplay with the other left-side sidebars (split sidebar) Persistent List View: Improve interplay with the other left-side sidebars #29468
• Provide access via breadcrumb bar Provide access to List View via breadcrumb bar #28745

[talldan]

@priethor I made an issue here that might be considered for tracking - #30432 - what do you think?

[priethor]

Seems like a great enhancement to me (and @Copons seems to agree as well 🙂 )

Added to the list! 👍

[Copons]

I've updated the issue mentioning #31047, which is the PR that adds the persistent list view to the post editor.

[simison]

Should be added to Block Widgets editor as well? It currently has the old version (tested in 10.6):

[Copons]

Should be added to Block Widgets editor as well? It currently has the old version (tested in 10.6):

@simison I'm not familiar with the Widgets editor, but it should be fairly easy from a code standpoint (see #31047).
A good chunk of the code diff is about tests, but everything else is quite straightforward, as all have a very similar layout.
The persistent list view as I've developed it, basically needs the header and the interface's secondary sidebar to exist, plus some small updates to the edit-* state.

Of course, I can absolutely help with that if needed.

[simison]

Cc @draganescu for thoughts on above.

[priethor]

Although it doesn't seem like the Widgets Editor hierarchy will usually grow as big as the Post or Site Editor's, it would be good to add it even if it is from a UI consistency point of view. The priority in the Widgets Editor before and after feature freeze is stabilizing it as much as possible, but let's keep it in mind in #32311 👍

[talldan]

I've created an issue for improving e2e test coverage of List View - #38774.

[slomeli79]

Is there currently a way (even via code snippet) to force List View to always be open by default?

[andrewserong]

I've written up a fresh issue to look at some of the current usability tasks for the list view over in #49563. While there are still some outstanding tasks in this issue, it's also quite an old one, and after chatting with @talldan, it sounds like it might be a good time to close out this particular tracking issue. Feel free to re-open this issue, though, if anyone would prefer to keep this one going!