https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51438
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Bug ID: 51438
Summary: VisualEditor: Link inspector should make it easier to
change the label
Product: VisualEditor
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: Editing Tools
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
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There's a few problems, if we end up solving them in different ways we should
create separate bugs for one or more of them.
1) Changing the label of an internal link
Given a simple link like [[example]] or [[Example]] (e.g. no custom label),
when changing the link target, it seems to the user that the link has not
updated since the label (which is all we see in the editor, hovering the link
does nothing since it isn't a clickable link in edit mode).. since the label
has not changed.
Now one could argue the label shouldn't update at this point so that the
sentence still reads the same (e.g. when changing intending to change the link
from "He was [[foolian]]." to "He was [[Foo|foonier]].") and to be consistent
for cases where the link does have a custom label (in which case it is more
likely the label should stay the same?).
However given the following two cases:
* "... is an [[United States|American]] thing ..."
-> " is a [[Germany|German]] thing ..."
* "... according to [[David Tennant]] ..."
-> " according to [[Russell T Davies]] ..."
It is very common that the label should change to the target automatically (the
second case) or at least be easy to change right after (first case). Ideally
for the first case above it would automatically change to Germany and then the
user can correct it to German.
2) Change the label of any link
Whether internal or external, it seems quite difficult to change the label of a
link. When selecting the entire link text and typing over it, it currently
behaves as follows:
> Some <a>link</a>
Select link (has to be done manually (tedious and error prone)
> Some [selection]<a>link</a>[/selection]"
Type "hello".
> Some <a>h</a>ello.
wtf?
Though I'm open to other ideas, I'd recommend we start by putting an input
field in the link inspector for the label so that they can be changed together.
Though even without that, one should be able to replace the label without
opening the inspector or running into the weird "<a>first char</a>other chars"
case.
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