Redmine

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This sounds like a great improvement!

For mobile, where exactly does that dropdown come from? Is it from clicking on the "Redmine" project name? I definitely think the new menu is an improvement, the placing just seems a bit odd to me (on both views).

+1 for that. This will solve another annoying issue - finally you will be able to easily open different project in new tab by using middle-click.

Although, I like the functionality (Ajax), I'm not convinced that moving this drop down is good idea.

Users are used to current drop down, this is most important, mostly used navigation way. I can already hear all the questions from dozens of users...

There is no other drop down menus like that, so, proposed solution seems to be totally new approach, not aligned with current style/navigation/etc.

Please also take a look on #19370.

We had implemented this functionality for a client as a plugin based on the popular Select2 for jQuery.

We could transform this into a core patch and propose it here, if that is desired. But it probably would not make sense if there's existing code for this yet.

Jean-Philippe, are your screenshots made with Photoshop or do you have working code yet? Would you like us to propose an implementation based on Select2?

I have some working code for this but it does not rely on Select2. Select2 has a huge footprint and I'd prefer not to use it.

Jean-Philippe Lang wrote:

I have some working code for this but it does not rely on Select2. Select2 has a huge footprint and I'd prefer not to use it.

Okay, thanks for your feedback. Then, we'll happily wait for your implementation!

May I suggest to think about a better project page (proposals are in many tickets, e.g. #3224) instead of implementing this project select? Since I don't see the big advantage of it. Although it's not bad to have it I would prefer to have better search and order options on the project page, together with some project information. There it could be also implemented with a "live" filtering (somehow).

One reason, why I don't like it that much, is that I need to open the dropdown with the mouse and then switch to the keyboard. And after that I will probably use the mouse again. A single click on the Projects link and some scrolling could be in many situations faster.

Just my 2 cents. Maybe I don't see the advantage yet.

Robert Schneider wrote:

One reason, why I don't like it that much, is that I need to open the dropdown with the mouse and then switch to the keyboard. And after that I will probably use the mouse again. A single click on the Projects link and some scrolling could be in many situations faster.

I don't think you'd need to switch to the keyboard with the drop-down. Once you open the drop-down, you should be able to just scroll through the list (ie. exactly what you are proposing for the projects page, just without the extra page load).

For us, because we have more than 500 projects, this is really useful. Though, we would love to see #3224 with filter, order by, sort and export capacity just like issues - as it will help us in reporting on projects. Thanks much for this enhancement in drop down.

On new project creation screen, "Jump to project..." is not shown in the drop-down.
When accessing /projects/new, @project.try(:name) returns not nil but empty.
source:/trunk/app/helpers/application_helper.rb@16680#L380

Another option could be to use Object#presence as follows:

text = @project.try(:name).presence || l(:label_jump_to_a_project)