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Description
From #4571 (review):
One last question: Somewhere we split the team dropdown into two distinct elements. Could we restore this as one component? See relevant discussion (internal). ❓
We've recently split the Team selector dropdown into two parts:
- Clicking on the team name goes to the default team page (i.e. "Projects", or "Workspaces" if your personal account is selected)
- Clicking on the arrow allows switching to a different team
The thought was to allow a sort of "breadcrumb navigation", allowing to:
- Dive into Teams > Projects > (a project) > (a prebuild)
- Go back (e.g. to the Team, or switch to another team)
similar to how Vercel does it:
However, the current implementation feels awkward:
- Clicking on my name (biggest clickable surface) does the same thing as clicking on the Gitpod logo (i.e. go to "Workspaces") -- it feels awkward that these two "primary" items go to the same place (i.e. broken link?)
- Switching teams can only be done by clicking on the super small down-arrow (requires more precision & effort and might get overlooked)
It would be cool to improve this.
Proposal
In this iteration we can:
- Introduce a new team selector (dropdown) component
- Use a similar icon for showing the second-level page like prebuilds
- (Optional) Add a hypelink on the project breadcrumb item to link back to project overview page.
Designs
| Default | Hover | Active |
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| Project | Prebuild |
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See design specs.