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Making the D8 Toolbar meet contrib's needs now and into the future

TL;DR -- Drupal 8 Toolbar code improvements are moving along. Let's discuss contrib DX improvements, propose solutions and build them.

Near the end of 2012 we updated the Drupal Toolbar with a mobile first design approach.

We accepted many followups as the cost of getting this improvement committed to core. I'm happy to say that a large number of these, including the most pressing, have already been addressed.

Several folks have been working on the issue to resolve the conflict between the Toolbar and Overlay.

We're close to having this fix committed. It will be followed by two more improvements:

Once the code cleanup tasks are completed, I want to address in a concerted and focused way, how we make the Toolbar a Drupal component that contrib authors will find useful and usable. We're addressing this issue here. Please leave comments in the following issue as well!

The most prominent issu to my mind is the interaction between Menu and Shortcut, noted in this regression issue https://drupal.org/node/1852346. Toolbar should be flexible enough to allow us to resolve such a display issue.

These are the known (to me at least) set of modules that will leverage Toolbar.

Core
Contextual
Menu (?)
Search (?)
Shortcut
Tour
User

What I would like to know from you, as core and contrib developers, is this:

  1. Do you foresee that your modules will leverage the D8 administrative Toolbar?
  2. What are the details of your use case?
  3. Do you have insights into the D8 architectural improvements we could leverage to further improve the Toolbar?

We have several months before code freeze to get improvements in place. I think this is sufficient time to the flexibility that contrib will need going forward with this Drupal release.

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