Activity bar - a top-level design issue

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This activity bar was discussed during GCC 2023 and several discussions afterwards. The design document is now transferred to GitHub issues to start working on its implementations and gather further, more detailed discussions.

Terminology

• activity bar = small leftmost bar
• sidebar = resizeable content space next to the activity bar, motivation for sidebar is quick access
• central panel = where the toolform is and other main content

Activity bar

• drag-handles to adjust the width of the bars Make flex panel drag handle more obvious #17113
  • the activity bar should also have one to have the currently large activity bar but also can change to a smaller version with just Icons (imho an icon-only activity bar can be half in size)
  • the history should have the same
  • workflow editor should also have the same
• we need a concept to go from the sidebar to a full-view. E.g. tool search sidebar to full-blown tool search (1)
• rename invocation to workflow-run everywhere in the App
• histories and notifications do not have a sidebar, just a single-page
• when activity bar is enabled, consider to make the history a bit wider
• rethink right-click-highjack[a] - offer the possibility to adjust the activity bar via user preferences?
• if an activity is clicked, set the keyboard focus to something meaningful, e.g. in the toolbar, but the focus into the search
• Keep in mind that an activity bar should also be possible for the workflow editor
  • tools
  • ITs
  • workflows
  • data (similar to the upload button, but here a options for data/data-collection/workflow-param)

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Upload

#17285

Tools

#17286

Visualisations

#17287

Interactive tools

#17288

workflow and workflow invocation

#17289

Notifications

#17291

GTN

• Activity bar - GTN activity usegalaxy-au/elixir-biocommons-colab#6

Pinboard

#17290