Issue:

After updating to 3.7 I desperately tried to create unnamed separators in a custom backend menu. Only here on Github I found I could achieve this by naming it with a single hyphen (-). In my opinion, this is not at all intuitive. How are users supposed to know that?

What's more when named with a single hyphen, the menu item is quite hard to click in the menu item list. Of course I can select the item and use the Edit button, but who the heck actually does it this way?

Suggested solution:

I think it would be far more elegant to have a Use Menu title as separator label property. And this should be switched off by default, which would be more the default behaviour of a "separator" imho. And of course the menu item type should then be named Separator instead of Text separator
OR: We should have an additional Separator menu item type, which doesn't even need a menu item title (no idea if this is even possible in Joomla ...) or at least works as the "classic" Joomla menu separator.

System information

Joomla 3.7.1

Relevant other issues

#15002 Allow menu item separators to have labels in admin menu