Expanded admin-bar Search causes my-account to move

[johnjamesjacoby]

Putting the search in the upper right corner causes the "My Account" menu to move when it is expanded. If a plugin positions new menus in the right-side area, they also end up moving. This ends up being a strange user experience, and actually looks like a bug, even if it's intentionally in the upper right hand corner.

Attached patch changes the priority of wp_admin_bar_search_menu to 200, forcing it to almost-always be the outermost item in that group, making it plugin friendly too.

[johnjamesjacoby]

BuddyPress is using the 3.3 My Account menu to attach user profile related links, and also puts its notifications menu to the left of it. Expanding the Search box open naturally moves both the core My Account menu, and the BuddyPress Notifications menu.

[jane]

This won't be changed for 3.3. Changing to enhancement because it does what we expected it to do.

[johnjamesjacoby]

Replying to jane:

This won't be changed for 3.3. Changing to enhancement because it does what we expected it to do.

It's changed in every 3.3 beta and RC. Meeting expectations doesn't make it the best possible result. We're compromising usability for aesthetics with this change. Attaching a screen shot of it in action.

[jane]

Yep, just like it is on .com, where it's been like that for a long while. We switched to the .com placement after trying just about every other, and specifically at Matt's request.

[johnjamesjacoby]

Closing as wontfix