Design → Templates → Manage all: Improve the table list view

[jasmussen]

In the site editor, both Templates and Template Parts have a drilldown section, "Manage all..." It's a little basic in terms of tools at the moment:

Let's refine and improve this for clarity and legibility. A few things come to mind:

• Consider template filters in the detail panel on the left
• Fix the issue with the frame box shadow which is currently awkwardly cut off. It appears there's a missing white background color behind the frame.
• Consider a creation date column, status, origin and other properties, considering templates will eventually be detached from the main theme. (Related: Remove coupling of templates, parts, and patterns when switching themes #25071)
• Consider adding a search field.

Mainly, let's advance the section in general and use it as a template for similar list views.

[jasmussen]

Extracting a design from an adjacent exploration related to content editing; the list view patterns can nevertheless still be applied here:

CC: @WordPress/gutenberg-design

[jasmussen]

#48970 may have caused the issue with the missing white background near the "Add new" button, but we might still want to revisit that top area nad the general spacing.

[richtabor]

#48970 may have caused the issue with the missing white background near the "Add new" button, but we might still want to revisit that top area nad the general spacing.

#50374 looks to resolve this. I’ll take a look today.

[SaxonF]

FYI I've started implementing a more generic Page component along with FilterBar and Table we can use for this issue (Templates and Template Parts) and #50028. I've bundled TanStack Table in just to play with it but probably don't need the complexity just yet. It's on branch try/table-view. Will hopefully have something more complete to post here tomorrow.

[jasmussen]

@jameskoster Can I close this issue in favor of #53233?

[jameskoster]

@jasmussen I'd be inclined to leave both open for now. 53233 is about the full scope of the table component(s) we need to design/build, but we'll still need to choose exactly which elements of that to bring to this context.

[youknowriad]

I think it's probably time to close these big data view issues for now. We should have more concrete smaller issues now. Let me know if you disagree.