A hover style suggests interactivity. Normally clicking a table row will select it. However when there are no bulk actions clicking a row will do nothing, which arguably makes the hover style a bit misleading.
One potential argument for retaining the hover style is that it can be a useful visual aid when scanning dense data tables horizontally, but I think there are better solutions to that like pinning columns (https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/64679).
cc @WordPress/gutenberg-design for thoughts on this one.
jasmussen
commented
1 month ago
A hover style suggests interactivity. Normally clicking a table row will select it. However when there are no bulk actions clicking a row will do nothing, which arguably makes the hover style a bit misleading.
As an example, view Theme Patterns:
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/27c6e693-d283-4688-898d-ae12b6bcec0c
One potential argument for retaining the hover style is that it can be a useful visual aid when scanning dense data tables horizontally, but I think there are better solutions to that like pinning columns (https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/64679).
cc @WordPress/gutenberg-design for thoughts on this one.