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A new file manager for Android 4.0+
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Combine Menus #86

Open BrandoCommando opened 11 years ago

BrandoCommando commented 11 years ago

What if we combined all non-ABS menu options into the Bookmark menu? That seems to be where Google is heading, and I think it could potentially give a nice clean feel to Backbone.

bkensey commented 11 years ago

That's something that I've been struggling with a while now. You know my feelings about adhering to design by convention, and in this case the nav drawer convention strongly discourages (and even explicitly excludes) the placement of action-type menu items within the drawer. I should note that the nav drawer is entirely separate from the right-hand drawer, which has its own conventions.

In my opinion, we should remain disciplined about only putting navigational items within the bookmarks drawer. That may include any menu item that changes the view of the main page, from bookmarks to a cloud account switcher. It would exclude any kind of option that modifies the makeup of the current view, like sort options. As for the in-between actions like "Add an account", I'm thinking it may be OK to keep that in the nav drawer. But we'll have to be smart about the placement of such a menu item.