Redesign dashboard

[janfaracik]

What feature do you want to see added?

The intention is to:

Kill the sidebar (pull important actions out into the tab bar/app bar)
Reduce plugins duplicated of core controls
Improve performance of dashboard and widgets
Support icons and badges for tabs

See #11208

Feedback

• incompatibility with the Dashboard View plugin
• Simplify jelly
• No way to edit view description

Upstream changes

No response

Are you interested in contributing this feature?

No response

[uhafner]

I'm not sure if this is possible: but it would make sense to use this PR as a chance to get rid of the broken "All view". The new dashboard should show only views that are really configurable by users. So ideally all views have the edit button.

[daniel-beck]

it would make sense to use this PR as a chance to get rid of the broken "All view". The new dashboard should show only views that are really configurable by users.

I'd go the opposite direction: A default view that isn't (much) configurable, and instead shows things relevant to the current user in some TBD prioritized manner (currently running builds, especially if started by the user, or including a changeset from the user, perhaps even just a recently visited job). Wouldn't have to be bound by the usual configuration options like which jobs to include or what columns to have. Individual entries could be closer to the mobile list view than the usual one as well. May even show specific builds that aren't even the last one.

Basically, keep the custom view types that can be configured and are "static", but redefine AllView/define a new default view that does something smart. And since it's the only way to navigate anywhere, have a "Show all" link/button somewhere to show everything like AllView does.

This way, the lack of configurability would be justified by an extended feature set that goes beyond what can reasonably be configured.

I see a lot of potential in something that's "just a custom view" if done well (but lack the UI expertise to really do this myself).

[LakshyaBagani]

Is this issue still open ? I would like to contribute to this issue.

[timja]

Its not structured in a way that is easy for new contributors to work on it. It needs design work done and likely changes across many plugins and not just core.

[LakshyaBagani]

Thanks for the clarification, I understand that this would require broader design changes across multiple plugins and not just core.

As I’m still getting familiar with the codebase, could you please suggest any other issues that would be suitable for me to work on at this stage? I’d really appreciate it if you could point me to a beginner-friendly or well-scoped issue and assign it to me so I can start contributing effectively.

Thanks a lot for your guidance!

[josimar-santana]

Hey @LakshyaBagani, I was checking if anyone had taken issue 16748
It seems tiny, so I considered contributing myself, but I'm not a Java developer. It would take some time for me just to set up the development environment. 😄

[splitt3r]

There are still some rough edges but the new design looks awesome. Keep up the great work 👍🏻

The Active Choice plugin customizes the Build with Parameters page pretty extensive. Will this work with the new pop up Dialog in the future?

[timja]

@splitt3r does it not work currently? The way the dialog is done I would have thought it should work.