I am finding the current “scroll to see more toolbar items” implementation on mobile problematic visually because it touches the side and also offers no visual affordance to denote it is scrollable.
But I wonder if we solve it in a different way, maybe we always overflow 2 items minimum (group last 2). That way it would be “Gif, +” and feel less lonely.
On mobile we already have a button to hide the toolbar if it takes up too much space.
An alternative here is… as stuff gets too narrow, shift them behind the + by a priority.
So in the screenshot above we would evict to behind + if it gets too narrow.
If you do that I think AI helper would be more suitable candidate to be hand in the hand mate with +
Or give to user a way to choose what ever they like to show. Yeah, it would be more complicated, one settings more and propably rarely used in the real world™.
I personally prefer scrolling, we could add a better visual hint there - a right caret and/or a gradient to transparency.
The multi-line toolbar in the composer was one of the causes of a common complaint about very small devices here on Meta, it takes a lot of space from the editing area.
I’m pretty confident most people unfortunately don’t realize the hide toolbar option exists, and I’m not sure this will still exist with the new plans for the composer window.
Either way, I don’t think this is better than the scrollable toolbar. It’s also used in other authoring tools like Notion - they use a fade out at the scrollable sides to indicate there are more toolbar items, I think we should do something like that.
I find something like this should be added to all cases where there’s scrollable “menu” style content - particularly noticeable in user settings/admin areas.
This feels like the nicest approach to me, we could also use reuse it on posts with the ... menu — but scrolling is certainly simpler to implement as long as we figure out how to make it obvious
Yes, I wanted to add a opacity-fadeout to make it better, but that requires a structural change so would need to verify with Renato, hence didn’t get to it yet.
There’s also the engoal-state of the new composer, which would see the whole toolbar redone and moved anyway.
I would like that too, although I would have to be in order whatever is closest to plus. Randomly plucking things from the list is pretty bad UX. And on mobile, a simple scroll is still preferable imo.
Wrapping to a second line is out of the question imo, saying “hide it fully on mobile then” is not a userfriendly solution.
I think we should first see if we can simply improve the current visual indictator, before doing more.
to behind + if it gets too narrow.
