Topic composer: Category dropdown missing categories after clicking on New Topic

[zoul (Tomáš Znamenáček)]

Repro:

1. Click on New Topic (topic composer pops up)
2. Click on plus button in top left corner next to Create a new Topic label (menu pops up)
3. Select the New Topic option (back to topic composer now)
4. Click on category dropdown

Expected behaviour: I see a scrolling list of categories to pick from.

Actual behaviour: I see just a single category. Other categories can be displayed by filtering, but always just one at a time.

Screen recording of the issue

[awesomerobot (Kris)]

From a UX perspective it also seems strange that New topic is an option in that dropdown when you’re already in New topic mode…

[Moin]

There is a topic about that

Why is there a 'New Topic' option in the composer menu when creating a topic?

Currently, when creating a new topic and opening the composer menu as a regular user you can see what looks like an option to create a new topic: [7357f32b9d27a7961a706aad4a8bde5531c8e3c2] Ignore the current accompanying description about ‘linked topic’, it should be fixed by 'New Topic' menu option has wrong description I think it’s intended to show you the current ‘mode’ the topic is in. However, when there are no other options available, this can look misplaced and counter-intuitive. I t…