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List View: add a way to use when on a mobile device #50301

Open annezazu opened 1 year ago

annezazu commented 1 year ago

What problem does this address?

This came up as part of the FSE Outreach Program's Front Page Fun call for testing as well as previous in this related issue https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/48982:

I miss the list view while editing on a mobile device as there’s no quick way to visualize the block structure without it. It is the most reliable and stable UI navigation point within the block editor, in my opinion.

What is your proposed solution?

Right now, the only way to use List View on mobile sizes is to put your phone in landscape mode. I think we should find a way to bring this tool to the mobile experience in general since, as mentioned above, it's such a critical tool especially for site building.

cc @nomad-skateboarding-dev since I imagine you'll agree!

annezazu commented 1 year ago

This came up later on in the same call for testing by another person:

I lost the List View (essential for me) My opinion. I think that I will never use this feature because with a small screen, we lose many advantages that we have on large screens. It’s interesting to can use the editor to quickly edit a simple text or similar if you don’t have the computer, but only for this. I emphasize, it is only my opinion.

annezazu commented 3 months ago

Noting this PR that causes list view not to open by default on mobile even when the preference is set: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/59016