On 9 August 2013 18:56, Alice Ellmer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm trying to customize my main navigation menu. > > First, adding more menu items doesn't seem possible without a plugin > at the moment: > > http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracInterfaceCustomization#CustomNavigationEntries > > which is in itself perhaps an issue that Bloodhound might want to > improve over Trac. > > Using the NavAdd plugin (http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/NavAddPlugin), I > added more items to my main nav as such: > > [navadd] > add_items = newbug,newtouchup > newbug.title = New Bug > newbug.url = /nearwoo/newticket?type=bug > newtouchup.title = New Touchup > newtouchup.url = /nearwoo/newticket?type=touchup > > [trac] > mainnav = newbug,newtask,tickets,search,admin > > but the order of the new entries is ignored and the extra entries > (newbug, newtouchup) are pushed into a dropdown menu labeled "more" > top the right of tickets. > > To give the admin a little more control over the elements on mainnav, > it seems like exposing mainnav in trac.ini would be a reasonable thing > to do. > > Best, > -- Alice >
I agree Alice, exposing that via trac.ini seems sensible. The main reason for the current approach of putting everything into the 'More' drop down was to have a good, clean, predictable user experience out of the box. If you find that the meta-nav to become unwieldy too quickly once you add your own items (because of our styling or spacing decisions), we're open to suggestion on how to improve it further. Welcome to the dev@ list! - Joe
