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Paragraph: Merge text settings into typography panel #36334

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Fixes: #23767

Description

This PR leverages the recent addition of grouped InspectorControls to inject the paragraph block's drop cap control into the block support typography panel.

Changes include:

  • Updating the paragraph block's edit component to inject drop cap control into typography panel
  • Styling tweak to ToolsPanel so that controls with help text maintain spacing between control and help text

How has this been tested?

Manually.

Testing instructions

  1. Create a post in the editor, add a paragraph block with text and select it
  2. In the Inspector Controls sidebar ensure there is no longer a Text Settings panel
  3. Within the Typography panel in the sidebar, ensure you can select "Drop cap" from the menu
  4. Test that toggling the drop cap control works
  5. Test deselecting the drop cap control from the Typography panel menu
  6. Select the drop cap control from the panel menu again and toggle it on
  7. Test the Typography panel's "Reset all" option and that it clears the drop cap selection.

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Screen Shot 2021-11-09 at 11 43 46 am Screen Shot 2021-11-09 at 11 44 12 am

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  • I've updated all React Native files affected by any refactorings/renamings in this PR (please manually search all *.native.js files for terms that need renaming or removal).

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ramonjd commented Nov 10, 2021

✅ In the Inspector Controls sidebar ensure there is no longer a Text Settings panel
✅ Within the Typography panel in the sidebar, ensure you can select "Drop cap" from the menu
✅ Test that toggling the drop cap control works
✅ Test deselecting the drop cap control from the Typography panel menu
✅ Select the drop cap control from the panel menu again and toggle it on
✅ Test the Typography panel's "Reset all" option and that it clears the drop cap selection.

Looks good in Chrome/FF/Safari

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Screen Shot 2021-11-11 at 8 55 00 am

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Nov-11-2021 09-30-43

Unrelated to this PR, I noticed that the letter spacing label bottom margin looks off in comparison with other controls.

Screen Shot 2021-11-11 at 8 58 34 am

WIP PR to fix that #36385

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LGTM! Much neater to have the control bunking in with its Typography brothers and sisters!

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The e2e failures here are related to the drop cap control now being contained within the ToolsPanel. The drop cap control was used for testing change detection etc. I'll update these tests tomorrow.

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I've updated the e2es to access the drop cap control via the tools panel. If there are better options in terms of controls we should use to perform the same tests let me know. For now though I think this approach ticks the required boxes.

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The new approach is much cleaner, thank you! LGTM 🚀

Could you just add a little CHANGELOG entry in the components package for this fix?

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Nice work @aaronrobertshaw, the code change and e2e updates look good to me, and this is testing well in the editor.

The prominence of the Drop cap feature is now very much reduced, so I could imagine it taking a little while for someone to find it the first time (if they're used to seeing it in the sidebar). However, given how infrequently the feature is used in practice, I think it works well having it hidden by default in the ToolsPanel menu 👍

I thought at first that I'd noticed a bug when switching between paragraphs, that when a paragraph is focused it does not render the drop-cap style. However, it turns out that appears to be by design and avoids a bunch of other bugs, so not something that needs to be fixed:

Kapture 2021-11-15 at 13 56 14

LGTM! 🎉

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Thanks for the review @andrewserong 👍

The prominence of the Drop cap feature is now very much reduced, so I could imagine it taking a little while for someone to find it the first time (if they're used to seeing it in the sidebar). However, given how infrequently the feature is used in practice, I think it works well having it hidden by default in the ToolsPanel menu 👍

The drop cap control does have much lower prominence. If it does prove to be something that should have higher visibility for the paragraph block I can create a quick follow-up PR to display that control by default.

I'll proceed with merging this for now.

@jasmussen Do you have any thoughts on whether we should make the drop cap control a default control within the Typography panel for the paragraph block?

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jasmussen commented Nov 15, 2021

Do you have any thoughts on whether we should make the drop cap control a default control within the Typography panel for the paragraph block?

One of the things that is unique about the Drop Cap property is that it is very much a Paragraph block specific feature. It's not something that makes sense to add and apply to a Heading block, or inside a Table, or as part of a Code block or otherwise.

There are always going to be properties that are bespoke to just that one block:

  • Row and column count in a Table
  • Burger menu toggle and style for Navigation
  • Bullet style for lists

And so in exploring inspector refreshes, in many cases it's felt appropriate to add such properties right to the initial block card itself, like so:

Frame 39

It's not always going to work, and just like how we're curating the ToolsPanel, it will need to be a value judgement on a per-block basis. But for some of the more simple blocks, it's feeling even more obvious:
Page list

Adding a dedicated panel with extra tab stops just to hold a single unique property doesn't make much sense.

Coming back to the question of whether Drop cap should be shown default in the ToolsPanel. Well, as suggested above, I don't think it should be part of the reusable typography panel at all, because it should only ever be used for the Paragraph.

This is not a strong opinion, and retiring the separate "Text settings" panel on its own was a good improvement. But just personally, I would consider this change to be a temporary improvement, and not one we optimize for:

  • only ever allow drop cap on Paragraph and don't allow other blocks to opt in
  • don't show it by default
  • at some point in the future, make it part of the Paragraph title card

This "inspector title card" concept needs separate dev work, and is an aspect of the work happening in #34574, so it needs to both crystallize in terms of design, but also in dev work. So my personal opinion is that this is probably fine to keep as is for now, so long as we don't have to create a bunch of deprecations if we extract the property back out of the tools panel in the future.

What do you think?

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Thanks for the great summary and detailed insight @jasmussen, I appreciate it 👍

So my personal opinion is that this is probably fine to keep as is for now, so long as we don't have to create a bunch of deprecations if we extract the property back out of the tools panel in the future.

The only thing that has changed behind the scenes here is that instead of injecting a new panel including the drop cap field into the inspector controls sidebar, we wrap the drop cap control in a ToolsPanelItem and inject it into the Typography panel's SlotFill which itself is then added to the sidebar.

I imagine that any "inspector title card", would offer its own SlotFill and all that would be required is to move the control to that when the time comes. Nothing has changed in terms of the block's attributes or how they generate the block's markup.

only ever allow drop cap on Paragraph and don't allow other blocks to opt in

To be clear, no new Typography block support was added for this. The existing ad-hoc drop cap control was moved to render within the Typography panel, after the block support features.

No other blocks could opt-in for the drop cap even if they wanted to.

What do you think?

I agree. The removal of the "extra" panel cleans things up in the short term but doesn't have to be the end result. For the time being, leaving drop cap as an optional control makes sense to me.

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Sounds good, thank you for clarifying! 👌

I'm sure we'll also learn a ton about what works well and not so well with the ToolsPanel, this is also an opportunity to revisit these things.

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Consolidate typography and text settings panels within the Paragraph block
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