Gutenberg: Theme name in Template Selector

[mtias]

It'd be good to display the current theme name in the template selector of edit-site.

[shaunandrews]

At the bare minimum, I could see adding a section to the bottom of the menu to display the theme name...

...but I'm not entirely sure what purpose this serves. Maybe we can add a preview on hover, and some other options to view the theme details and view all themes:

The "Theme details" item probably isn't necessary — selecting the theme name could open the details like we do now in the Themes screen in wp-admin:

I'm not sure if we can use that exact modal within the editor, but I could see adapting that UI. We could look to add more template-related information about the theme here as well.

[MichaelArestad]

It'd be good to display the current theme name in the template selector of edit-site.

@mtias I'm still curious as to why. I'm not sure exactly what purpose this would serve.

[mtias]

Right now you cannot tell while in edit site view which theme you have enabled. The templates and template parts come from a mixture of site content (user modified) and theme content. It's important to trace where those are coming from.

[MichaelArestad]

Right now you cannot tell while in edit site view which theme you have enabled. The templates and template parts come from a mixture of site content (user modified) and theme content. It's important to trace where those are coming from.

@mtias Right. Perhaps we can delineate which templates are coming from the theme and show the theme name in conjunction with the template? Perhaps when previewing the template?

[mtias]

That's somewhat already in place — all templates come from the theme unless they have the "modified by user" dot as explained here https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/19269

[MichaelArestad]

@mtias And templates couldn't be added by other sources like plugins?

[shaunandrews]

Building on the work from #20470, here's the latest on the theme info (shown in its :hover state):

[mapk]

This hover experience from @shaunandrews communicating the theme visually works really well. I noted that if this hover+preview is used here, it would be great to see it used for the templates in this issue: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/20476

[johnstonphilip]

What would show where the theme is, if the template is not part of the theme, but only exists as a wp_template post_type?

[joanrho]

@shaunandrews Does this still need design feedback or has a final direction already been decided upon? If so, can you please provide some updated visuals and links to the Figma source files?

[MichaelArestad]

@joanrho This works for now and fits with the template previews. Moving to Needs dev.

[shaunandrews]

Does this still need design feedback or has a final direction already been decided upon?

This seems like a mostly straight-foward one, I have nothing more to add design-wise at this point.

Figma file is here: https://www.figma.com/file/TR15iRvk7toGHnKb68QN1K/Full-Site-Editing?node-id=1060%3A0

[johnstonphilip]

@MichaelArestad @shaunandrews Any thoughts on this? https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/20469#issuecomment-603445859

[johnstonphilip]

I also feel like this comment is worth addressing as well:
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/20469#issuecomment-597730143

[MichaelArestad]

What would show where the theme is, if the template is not part of the theme, but only exists as a wp_template post_type?

I would expect nothing to show there. Perhaps, if the template is added by a plugin, it could show the plugin name in place of the theme.

[ockham]

I came here via #19252. Going to give this a stab.