[Patternfly] [PatternFly] Comment: "Primary Navigation Bar"

[Matt Carrano]

Hi Duncan,

Sorry to take a couple of days to get back to you on this, but wanted to move this discussion out to the PatternFly list.

You raise a good point about the classic problem with fly-out menus.  I also found the Amazon approach to this pretty interesting.  I think this requires a larger change to the overall primary navigation design than we would likely make at this time.  You'll notice that this implementation assumes a different geometry than the more standard fly-outs we have.  But this is definitely something we can keep in mind for future consideration.

Other thoughts, comments, ideas welcome.  Will be interesting to hear whether these types of menus are being applied in projects and if this mouse tracking issue has been a problem.

Regards,

Matt

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Author : Duncan (IP: 127.9.32.129 , 127.9.32.129)
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Not being a UI designer, but a user who thinks he knows a good idea when he sees one, can I ask if PatternFly will be specifying the submenu dropdown method?

What I mean is the navigation from menu item to sub-menu item without having to track perfectly horizontally into the submenu.

http://bjk5.com/post/44698559168/breaking-down-amazons-mega-dropdown

This article gives a good account of Amazon's take on it.  It would be great to see this implemented in PatternFly.

Apologies if this is the wrong place to raise this.

D

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