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Windows Desktop MenuBarItems displayed inside a tabbed page needs to display inside main toolbar #8576

Open hbraasch opened 2 years ago

hbraasch commented 2 years ago

Description

When displaying MenubarItems inside a tabbed page, in a desktop application, it would be better do display them on the main toolbar left-hand-side, as for a single page.

Currently, if the menu items are inside a Tabbed page, they display inside a "mini" toolbar created on the right-hand side of the main toolbar, and the menu items are displayed all compressed there. The tabs are also displayed in the same main toolbar.

This is how they display on a single page (fine and expected)

Expected

This is how they displays in a tabbed page (not fine and very much unexpected)

NotExpected

It is not fine since it confuses the user for they do not expects the menus (1) to move away from their default locations. It takes away a lot from UI intuitivity. The title displayed is also displays the wrong text (2). It should not be the name of the active Tab.

Here is a suggested layout (very rough but brings over the point). It creates a toolbar just for the menu items (2), and a second toolbar for the tabs (very much like you'd expect in a WinForm situation)(1), the correct title gets displayed in the centre (3) and if there are secondary ToolBarItems, display them here (4)

Preferred

Public API Changes

N/A

Intended Use-Case

I'd like desktop apps to look more like WinForm apps, especially when using tabbed pages

ghost commented 2 years ago

We've moved this issue to the Backlog milestone. This means that it is not going to be worked on for the coming release. We will reassess the backlog following the current release and consider this item at that time. To learn more about our issue management process and to have better expectation regarding different types of issues you can read our Triage Process.