Dashboard configuration: Show / hide panel titles

[alexfrancoeur]

As we begin to introduce features like full screen mode and dashboard only mode there becomes a need to control the experience a bit more.

The current state of dashboard automatically shows the visualization name on the dashboard. There are a few issues around customizing the title and modifying it's position in the past. This request is specifically for a dashboard level configuration option that allows you to hide all the dashboard panel titles to reduce clutter. This could be surfaced as an additional configuration option in edit mode.

cc: @elastic/kibana-sharing

[trevan]

This should really be per panel. Some panels need a title while others don't. I think it would fit better in the pull down menu that you have mocked up in #12560

[rgheleribefore]

Any news about it?

[aadicodes]

Hello Team,
any info on when this feature will be made available ?
thanks

[stacey-gammon]

I started looking at adding this in at the dashboard level and now have a bit of a UX question (cc @elastic/kibana-design)

I'm assuming without showing the dashboard titles, people want that whole area at the top to go away. You can see what I'm talking about with maps and a TSVB chart with a colored background:

If that's the case, where do we put the context menu on the right, or the expand toggle when in view mode? We can "float" it over the vis on hover, but I worry about accidentally hiding something important underneath. For instance, I ran into an issue when implementing drilldown links where the little link icon was to be in the bottom left corner - that would have ended up clobbering the spy panel toggle.

So if we want to not prevent anything from underneath getting clicked (for instance if someone wrote a custom visualization with it's own toggle in the top right corner), then where should we put these icons/menu? Or maybe we just don't care about potentially hiding something clickable underneath since it's just a small area, and plugin authors will just have to be careful of putting anything clickable there.

[snide]

@stacey-gammon Float on hover.

[snide]

Sorry, that was too quick. Floating on hover is how I'd imagine it working. FWIW, I think you could probably show the titles on hover as well (if they were indeed disabled) so that people always had a backup option for clarity.

[cjcenizal]

I worry about accidentally hiding something important underneath

I think this is the tricky bit we need to figure out. Maybe we can add a small "X" button that the user can click to dismiss the overlay if it's covering up something they want to interact with.

[snide]

Better to hover it outside the panel then. Just above. I'd probably see it as a "bar" that is statically positioned if default, or absolutely positioned (negative to top) if hidden.

[alexfrancoeur]

Just thinking out loud here, but do we need to hide the title in edit mode? We could probably still place the context menu with a title when editing, no? I imagine the need to hide the titles is only in view mode. Then I would expect expand to be on hover as well, as long as it's still keyboard accessible.