Rearranging control strip

[ide_cyan]

Title:
Rearranging control strip

Area:
control strip

Summary:
The "log out" button is too close to the "reading" page link

Description:
On the thin control strip that's located at the top of the page for some DW layouts, the relatively large "log out" button is situated directly above the small textual "reading" page link, which means that a slip of the mouse or the touch pad can very easily accidentally log someone out who is trying to go to the reading page. The reading page link has to be one of the most-used links on that control strip -- would it be possible for the log out button to be placed further away from it?

Poll #2963 Rearranging control strip

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 47

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Should be implemented as-is.
13 (27.7%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
5 (10.6%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
5 (10.6%)

(I have no opinion)
23 (48.9%)

(Other: please comment)
1 (2.1%)

Comments

[everysecondtuesday]

My log out button is split over settings and inbox. I think it depends on the length of your username. If moved, where were you thinking of it being positioned?

[ide_cyan]

Yeah, I guess it would depend on the length of the username.

As to where it should go: I don't really know. Perhaps it could be aligned at the right-hand side of that section of the control strip, if that didn't make it squish over long usernames in small-sized windows.

[zeborah]

Staring at that area for a while, it occurs to me that it might make sense to have:

[username] Settings Logout
Home Post Reading Inbox

This way all the stuff that's related to your log-in/account is in one line, and all the stuff that's related to content is in one line. This would leave "Logout" close to "Inbox" for many people; is that likely to be a problem?

[holyschist]

I'm not entirely sure how I'd want stuff rearranged, but I definitely click the log out button accidentally more often than I'd like.

[jumpuphigh]

I haven't had any problems with it but since other people are, I am definitely in support of some rearranging of the strip.

[kyrielle]

I'm wondering if some logical order can be made that would put the logout button under the username. I'm very unlikely to want to click my own username, although I want to see it - I assume that's the case for others. If so, getting the button to be under the user name would tie the two together still, but make accidental logouts less likely.

[feathertail]

I mostly just use my bookmarks. I can see how this could be a problem if I used the navstrip a lot.

Perhaps we should have a separate suggestion for redoing the navstrip, with mockups? After seeing what other suggestions there are for it.

[schnurble]

+1

[cesy]

I don't have a problem with the current arrangement, but it's good to make this kind of thing work for as many people as possible, so long as we can do it without breaking things for anyone else.