[EuiSideNav] Alternative display styles

[jfsiii]

Brought over from #2213

If we were doing it against EuiSideNav we'd likely add a new prop called display with an enum that included the new format alongside a default value for the current one. That would allow us to have more styles later if needed. You'd just want to document the alternative display in the EuiSideNav docs. The rest is likely some CSS and some consideration on whether this menu, like the current one accepts nesting.

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[hbharding]

Hey @jfsiii - I'd be happy to try and take this on as my first EUI contribution.

@snide I might ping you later to find a time to meet so I know how to get started, maybe next week. I think we have some reading material on this, but i'll probably have some questions about the process along the way.

[snide]

@hbharding LET'S DO IT. I think this is totally doable on the design side. It should be mostly CSS and I can walk you through stuff. If you want, I don't mind pairing through it. Just schedule something on my cal.

[cchaos]

@hbharding Is this still a valid feature request? Not sure if you've changed your design for this or if you still need it.

[hbharding]

Hey! Sorry for the delay. Yeah, we still intend to do this, but it hasn't been a priority. In the meantime we're using a stacked list of EuiLinks. I'm wrapping up the remaining designs for Ingest manager this week, and intend to start contributing to the codebase so that it matches the designs. Let's touch base next week. Ideally we can get this in for 7.8, which we're calling our "alpha" release.

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[hbharding]

no longer relevant / needed