Left Navigation Bar does not Scale about podman-desktop

[deboer-tim]

Linking a prior design for background: #2677.

The goal of this is just to scale the current design - but personally, I'd like to see a pattern where adding more Kubernetes objects could be done without having to move it or make it a child menu (i.e. pods/images/deployments/ingress+more are all still basically at the same nav level).

[ekidneyrh]

We touched on this in the UX call yesterday. Some proposed solutions:

• Have different work spaces. Eg 'I'm going to work on Kubernetes now, so I'm going to enter Kubernetes work mode' and have the work space display everything I need for that.

• having the user decide what icons they want on the nav bar and have the rest under a hover menu or a more button. They can switch and swap as they please. And then have an option to reset the organization to default. This could tie in with the above point, as the user could set and save a custom work profile.
  

• Have a parent icon and then have their children / relevant icons displayed on click, like how Google Docs does it:
  

[feloy]

The Blender interface has also been discussed.

Blender uses Workspaces (https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/interface/window_system/workspaces.html). When you select a workspace (on the top), the icons on the left bar change with the ones for this workspace.

We could imagine having 2 columns of icons on the left. One column containing the common icons (containers, pods, images, volumes) + the workspace icons, the other column containing the workspaces:

With Kubernetes workspace selected:

(dashboard)     [kubernetes]
(container)     (ai lab)
(pods)          (bootc)
(images)        (other extension...)
(volumes)
(deployments)
(services)
(ingresses)