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.
http://drupal.org/node/1137920
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.
https://drupal.org/node/1846970
Several folks have been working on the issue to resolve the conflict between the Toolbar and Overlay.
http://drupal.org/node/1847084
We're close to having this fix committed. It will be followed by two more improvements:
https://drupal.org/node/1847314
https://drupal.org/node/1860434
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!
https://drupal.org/node/1894964
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
Contrib
I10n_client: http://drupal.org/project/l10n_client
Responsive Preview: http://drupal.org/project/responsive_preview
What I would like to know from you, as core and contrib developers, is this:
- Do you foresee that your modules will leverage the D8 administrative Toolbar?
- What are the details of your use case?
- 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.
Comments
For reference
Issue in the admin_menu queue: https://drupal.org/node/1847370