(Public) Nav editor screens feature comparison

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3	Added to Tracking Issue?	Priority (High/Medium/Low)	Where is it lacking polish?	Description	Github Issue	Possible solution(s)
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5	✅	Medium	Accordion menu structure is visually messy	As the navigation block's CSS has changed, the editor's visual appearance has degraded. This is because the editor extends and overrides those styles. Submenus have incorrect spacing and the icon no longer rotates when expanded	https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/29747	Short term - fix the styling issues, long term - solve the dependency issues.
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7	✅	Low	Inserter menu options are not ordered in a logical way	Items you can add show based on "frecency" model. May not be intuative.	https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/33867	Possible "Page" should be first. Possibly avoid putting too much onus on the user to choose things. Should be more automatic. Items should stay "where they are" and not move around.
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9	✅	Medium	New menu creation process	Naming a menu is ok, but the naviation block's placeholder doesn't fit the style of the screen. Placeholder more focused on Site Editing but doesn't suite the style of the Nav screen. Doesn't look editable. Looks like it's loading.	https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/23953	Should look very "editable" from the get go. Looks quite "narrow". Missing the inserter top left as it is in the Post Editor.
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11	✅	Low	Responsive styles	Some of the styles could use some finesse on mobile viewports. The editor UI is missing lots of it's core options and features such as access to certain menus. Snackbar notifications are missing.	https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/29100	Low but with some exceptions such as accessing key parts of Gutenberg Edutor interface.
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16	✅	Low	Page List block can be created, which is unsupported	When creating a new menu it's possible to select 'Add all pages', which inserts a Page List block.	https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/33999	There is a proposal to rework the placeholder of the nav block, at which point it could have its own 'Add all pages' option (https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/23953). Possibly remove this option and this block. Retain the "Add all pages" but do the insertion manually rather than relying on the Page List block
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18	✅	Medium	Theme opt-in causes editor to look like a mess or crash	When the theme opt-in is enabled, blocks like Search don't fit the accordion style of the editor. Adding Social Icons causes the editor crash.	https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/34265 or https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/33969	Disable the theme opt in until core developers have had enough time to improve the feature. Remove the Theme Opt in.
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20	✅	High	Menu location modal doesn't save settings	The REST API possibly doesn't support editing multiple menus	https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/33815	Fix it
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22	✅	Medium	Support for menu titles that include special chars.	Currently if you create a menu that includes a character such as an apostrophe then this doesn't render correctly in the block based screen	https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/34223	Fix the point at which the title is output to resolve any special characters and output them correctly. Consider other languages.
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24	✅	Low	URL remains maleable even if link is of fixed type	On the current screen if I add a "Page" item it remains as a "Page" item which is always locked to the URL represented by that Page entity. In the new editor the UI affords the ability to edit the URL to be anything. Therefore I can create an item with a specific type, but then update the URL to be something else entirely. This becomes very confusing.	https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/34224	Consider disabling ability to enter custom URLs when nav item is of a specific type (ie: Page, Post...etc). Alternatively make system "intelligent" enough to convert the nav item to "custom" if/when the user enters a custom URL.
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26	✅	Low	The menu switcher doesn't show after deleting a menu	When deleting a menu, the menu switcher is supposed to display to allow the user to select which menu they'd like to edit (https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/29201)	https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/34255	Fix it
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31	✅	Low	Missing "type" indicators on Nav items	Unless you click on an individual nav item (and you have the sidebar open) it's not possible to tell at a glance what the "type" (eg: Post, Page, Category...etc) of a given nav item is. The existing Nav screen has indicators next to each item.	https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/34233	Add some indicators for "type" that are visible even without clicking on individual Nav items.
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33	✅	High	Ability to see nested levels at a glance	On the existing screen you can immediately see all the levels of a heavily nested nav. On the new screen you have to click to expand the nested levels which becomes a poor experience with heavily nested navigations.	https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/23583#issuecomment-903766350	Add clear means to expand all levels of a nested nav "level" in one go. We could automatically expand all levels.
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35	✅	Low	Multiple clicks required to create new menu	The existing screen has a means to create a new menu from a single click. The new screen is a two step process of finding the "hidden" button in the dropdown and then clicking.	https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/34227	Add a button to the top toolbar saying "Create new Menu".
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40	✅	High	Ability to add items to the Navigation in bulk.	Existing screen affords ability to bulk add many items to the Navigation at once. The new screen requires items to be added one by one.	https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/31667	Javier has added a design to the Issue which shows a modal-based UI to facilitate bulk adding items.
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42	✅	Low	Bulk removal of items	The existing screen allows for selecting multiple nav items that are not immediate siblings and removing them in one go. The new screen only allows this for immediate siblings but does not work if you have to select items that are not next to each other.	https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/34232	Update block selection mechanic to allow for selecting multiple items that are not immediate children by holding CMD or Ctrl and clicking.
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44	✅	Medium	(Improved UX for) nesting via drag and drop.	The existing Navigation screen allows you to drag items horizontally in order to nest them. This is supported by the new screen within the List View only and even then the UI/UX isn't very clear (there's a little line that indicates the nesting level when dragging which isn't clear).	https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/34234	Either implement a similar drag to indent UX or a new control in the block toolbar to allow items to be nested (a bit like how you can nest bullet lists in MS-Word or Google docs). Note - this would be possible via list view, but there's a new bug - https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/34254. Did we loose this feature from the Nav block - Andrei felt it was previously a feature.
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46		n/a	Extensibility	Some extensibility features are not supported	https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/31316, https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/31551	Continue to allow the user to opt-out of the navigation editor so that they don't have to disable the Gutenberg plugin
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48	✅	Medium	User facing help/support is not available	The old screen had help, the new screen doesn't have any user documentation		While the screen is a plugin-only feature, an option could be to link to a README on github
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53			Copying content	It's possible to copy and paste one or more link blocks, even between editors	n/a	n/a
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55			Duplicating items	Similar to copy/pasting. One or more links can be duplicated. Duplicating a nested menu can allow for a faster workflow.	n/a	n/a
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57			Important features aren't hidden	The old menu screen has several important features hidden in 'Screen Options' by default	n/a	n/a
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59			Formatting can be added to menu items	Menu items support bold, italic etc. (though theme support might be an unknown)	n/a	n/a
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61			Editing on mobile	In spite of some issues with some of the responsive styles on the new screen, the old screen does not adapt very well at all to working on mobile, it turns into a huge form that requires a lot of scrolling	n/a	n/a
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63			Changes don't need to be saved before 'Managing locations'	On the old menu screen, it's not possible to switch to the Manage Locations tab without first saving or losing unsaved changes	n/a	n/a
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66	✅	High	Adding new menu items	You can only add new items in the bottom. Should be possible to add a new item between new items. You can now but it's only 1 pixel high and you musn't have an item selected	https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/34268	It's almost impossible to add new menu items in between existing ones. It should be simple to get the "inserter" to show up between menu items.
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68	✅	High	View more items	You can only search for more items. There is no way to scroll down or click on a link to view more items.	https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/34283	Could we increase the "Recently added pages" total of items
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